A timely, multidimensional view of poverty-related need
(October 24) – It’s no secret that the War on Poverty hasn’t been as successful as Americans had hoped it would be when President Lyndon Johnson first announced his federal anti-poverty effort, known as the Great Society. After five decades of fighting this war, and despite the consistent growth of myriad bureaucracies and programs intended […]
(October 20) – And, as part of our Chasing the Dream series, we just recently went out to rural North Carolina. And out there, we found a large group of people and a very large issue that the truth is the campaigns have nearly ignored. It is a place rich in landscapes and in spirit, […]
(October 20) – For years, many Los Angeles residents have watched with alarm as homeless encampments spread across the city, from the sidewalks of skid row to alleys in South Los Angeles, behind shopping centers in the Valley and even on the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean. Next month, voters will have to decide whether […]
(October 20) – They used to pray together before school each morning. Dawn Hawkins would take her son’s hands, and with clenched eyes she’d ask for safe passage from their home through the hard streets of North Philadelphia, a sometimes-dangerous maze of gang lines, drug corners and police dragnets. “Be a shield of protection for […]
(October 18) – How can it be that the United States spends so much money fighting poverty and still suffers one of the highest child poverty rates among advanced nations? One in five American children is poor by the count of LIS, a data archive tracking well-being and deprivation around the world. By international standards […]
(October 17) – After walking more than 650 miles, an Atlanta man marching against poverty returned home to Atlanta Sunday. Terence Lester, a self-described minister, community activist, speaker and author who co-founded Love Beyond Walls, left his hometown of Atlanta Aug. 20 and headed to the District of Columbia.
(October 16) – San Francisco has made headlines as a hub for technology — giants like Facebook, Apple and Google are headquartered nearby, as are a plethora of tech startups. At the same time, residents complain that those same tech companies are part of the cause of the city’s astronomical cost of living — and […]
(October 15) – As U.S. cities struggle to address rising homelessness, they increasingly are turning to policies pushed by commercial-property owners that ban people from sitting or sleeping on sidewalks and begging for money. Business improvement districts—groups of commercial property owners who pool their resources to revitalize their neighborhoods—have worked with some city councils to […]
(October 14) – The images are startling: Homeless men, women and children huddled on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area — often in the shadows of start-ups and high-tech behemoths generating billions of dollars in wealth. It’s a stark contrast that has gripped the region, and prompted four county measures on the Nov. […]
(October 12) – Tens of millions of Americans live in poverty, yet the issue has received scant attention on the presidential campaign trail. We examine the candidates’ plans to address poverty. There’s been a lot of style over substance in this presidential campaign at the expense of issues that affect millions of Americans. One of […]