“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.” PeopleWorldFirstsHumansEnoughPovertyTechnologyEconomicConditionsDevelopmentDiseaseCapableFirst TimeCurrentsHuman ConditionIntegrationIlliteracyEconomic Integration Author:Clare Short
“Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.” IfsMenNeedsMeanImportantEconomicHe ManDiseaseMalesObviousSatisfiedSatisfyingUrgentProstitutionIntercourseDisease And Death Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.” TurnsEvilLossEconomicSorrowBlessingDiseaseCrossesGoldFinalsDisappointmentSymbolsHeartacheFrustrationAlchemistDregsSlagLife Disappointment Author:Catherine Marshall
“I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsHas BeensSocialCausesChanceSpaceClassEconomicDiseaseConsciousProfitEaseBarriersArrangements Author:Randall Robinson
“We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.” WorldLooksStatesJobsCausesUnitedNumbersUnited StatesEconomicAmountDiseaseApproachDevelopingDisability Author:Melinda Gates