by Beth | Feb 27, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Homeless Miss Colorado: ‘Anyone can fall victim to this’ Despite having ‘all my belongings in a trash bag,’ she hopes to win Miss USA crown.When Blair Griffith walks into a room, people notice. she’s beautiful, smart. graduated with honors and, yes, a beauty...
by Beth | Feb 26, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Understanding what it is like to be poor takes first hand knowledge. You have to experience it. If you’ve never been poor, you have no idea how hard it really is. Poverty is greatly misunderstood. It is a cycle that sucks people in and doesn’t want to let them go. For...
by Beth | Feb 26, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Housing isn’t the solution to homelessness. You also need community,” said Mark Horvath. Founder of InvisiblePeople.tv — a site of raw, uncut videos of homeless people telling their own stories—Horvath was once homeless himself in 1995. So he’s no small...
by Beth | Feb 19, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Around the world, momentum is building behind a tiny tax on bankers that could generate billions of dollars to help with problems at home and overseas. It has been given different names in different countries – the ‘Robin Hood’ tax in the United...
by Beth | Feb 19, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
This factsheet presents a quick overview of recent cross-cutting Urban Institute research on poverty, including 13 key points on poverty’s effects on immigration, health care, children, infants with depressed mothers, employment, assets, and neighborhoods. One...
by Beth | Feb 16, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
What is happening on the street sometimes appears to be the equivalent of a blood sport. One with no rules and that makes no sense. When assessing each individual’s struggle to avoid facing the hole they are in, it’s clear that the denial factor can...
