by John Freund, CM | Oct 15, 2007 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Does it make sense that people who most need a little seed money often have the hardest time getting it? Is it just and reasonable that people who would prefer to solve the problems of their poverty and who have ideas about how to do so end up, instead, being offered...
by annaread | Oct 14, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Denver, Colorado USA the mayor challenged every church, synagogue, and mosque to adopt one of Denver’s 600 homeless families. A story in today’s Los Angeles Times looks at what changed in the material lives of one family what changed in the interior...
by annaread | Oct 14, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
When the US dollar buys less abroad, the impact isn’t simply on tourism and international trade. The United Nations’ World Food Program feels the impact, too. Read a CBS report.
by annaread | Oct 13, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Tuesday in Bohol the 2007 Poverty Fair gets underway. At the fair various governmental institutions offer projects for consideration to local and foreign funding institutions. Last year, 154 of 230 proposals met with “positive results”, according to a...
by annaread | Oct 11, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Recently the weekly feature on systemic change spotlighted Seton Harvest, a Daughters of Charity project of community supported agriculture. The Sisters of Charity of New York also have a project; see their interesting blog.
by annaread | Oct 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Speaking yesterday before the United Nations General Assembly, the Holy See’s permanent observer at the U.N. described how income inequality has led to “loss of social relationships and networks needed to maintain personal integrity and dignity”....
