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2005

December 2005:
Annual 'Hunger Report' shows poor families cannot afford nutritious food

November:
Death penalty in fourth year of decline

October:
NETWORK's sensus fidelium reality check: NETWORK, a Washington-based Catholic lobby recently surveyed its membership, members of other social justice groups, and subscribers to Catholic publications to find out what the good sense of the faithful had to say about national legislative priorities.

August:
AFL-CIO survey reveals broad worker dissatisfaction: America’s workers are anxious about the nation’s economy and do not hold out much hope for the future, according to new Labor Day polling research released by the AFL-CIO.

August:
Iraq's grim tally: Most Americans know that more than 1,800 U.S. military have been killed in Iraq. Here is one attempt at tracking the toll among Iraqis themselves.

July:
G-8 oil aid increases African debt, study finds: The U.S. strategy to increase oil production in the world's least developed countries—particularly those outside the volatile Middle East—may serve consumers in Western nations but is likely to add to those poor nations' burdens of debt and economic hardship, according to a new study.

June:
World Bank report finds little improvement for indigenous people.

May:
Report says millions of U.S. uninsured skip needed treatment

Global poverty by the numbers

April:
Support for death penalty among Catholics plummets: Pollster John Zogby describes a startling, large-scale shift in Catholic attitudes toward the death penalty.

March:
Executions decline along with support for U.S. death penalty: A five-year decline in death sentences, a 40 percent drop in executions, a shrinking death row population, and waning public support for capital punishment have marked a significant turn around in the use of the death penalty.

February:
Give till it hurts—or you run out of potato chips?

The state of the union? Poverty on the rise

January:
Are we stingy? How well does foreign aid add up?

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