January is Poverty Awareness Month in USA

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is launching a new national awareness campaign that emphasizes the growing number of poor Americans. Timed to coincide with the start of Poverty in America Awareness Month, the new CCHD-sponsored campaign uses television, radio and print ads, beginning with a press conference at the National Press Club on January 7 to attract attention to the 32.9 million Americans who now live in poverty.
The Salt of the Earth website of the Claretians has a section on this program.

According to Father Robert Vitillo, executive director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, “December brings outpourings of good will and concern for the poor, but in January the nation returns to its usual routine and the poor are still poor. By focusing on poverty in January, we hope to remind Americans early each year that poverty remains very much a part of American life.

It can be visited at http://salt.claretianpubs.org/sjnews/2003/01/sjn0301b.html