That pushes the number of bureaucratic organisations interfering in our lives to 528 with a combined bill of 175billion. Each new quango will cost 600million a year to run, the cost of more than half of that coming from state funding. In addition there will be five more new quangos to replace existing ones. Quango stands for quasi-autonomous, non-governmental organisation. co.Uk Gordon Brown is creating NINE new busybody quangos costing 2. The move comes despite Mr Brown vowing in 1995...

The states with the highest rates of child food insecurity are Texas and New Mexico, where more than 24 percent of all children are at risk of hunger. That's enough children to fill every seat in all of the professional league football, baseball, basketball and hockey stadiums and every Division One NCAA basketball stadium across the country at the same time. In Florida, 16 percent of all children live in food insecure households, which means they do notalways know where they will find...