This way of going “green” hurts the poor

A plan designed to encourage use of solar energy is, in effect, a regressive tax, according to the manager of policy and research for the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Victoria (Australia). Solar energy is a good idea; having poor households subsidize richer...

Aid for Myanmar cyclone victims

President of the US National Council of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Joe Flanagan says that, because of relatively little red tape, the Society “is in a comparatively positive position” to help Myanmar cyclone victims. Read Mr Flanagan’s letter...

Telling a story of “The Other America”

CBS News has begun a series about how working people are struggling with hard choices: heat the house or gas the car or buy groceries. In this installment, the reporter’s guide is a volunteer at a the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul food pantry in Greenville,...
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