- 40% of Israeli children at poverty risk, September 22, 2009, Ynetnews.com: “More and more Israelis are poor, hungry, and abstain from seeking medical attention for themselves. This is the bottom line of the report published Monday afternoon by the Central Bureau of Statistics in honor of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The report shows that 40% of children in Israel in 2007 were at poverty risk, as opposed to just 33% in 2001. Risk of poverty is defined as belonging to a household with a disposable income per capita less than 60% of the national median equalized disposable income…”
- Recession increasing gaps between rich and poor, By Ruth Eglash, September 22, 2009, Jerusalem Post: “The gaps between Israel’s rich and poor continued to grow throughout 2007, with more people than ever falling into poverty, a report published Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics revealed. Released ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which takes place on October 17, the report shows that some 40 percent of the country’s children were subjected to poverty-like conditions in 2007, and the socioeconomic gaps between Jewish and Arab populations and between the religious and secular have sharply increased in recent years…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty