by Beth | Jul 28, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
While passions flare on all sides of the language debate, the result is that the language barrier negatively impacts health care for 50 million (19 percent) U.S. residents who do not speak English at home and the 22 million (eight percent) with limited English... by Beth | Jul 3, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Australia: The new welfare-to-work rules, which came into effect at the weekend, could have disastrous consequences, according to Catholic Social Services. The ABC reports that under the new rules as of 1 July, unemployed people who refuse three job offers in a year... by Beth | Jul 2, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Toolkit for Young Advocates, produced by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, is an interactive, interdisciplinary curriculum for youth ministry programs and high school classrooms. The lessons introduce participants to the epidemic of poverty in the United... by Beth | Jun 15, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
U.S. Bishops Call for Broad Immigration Reform.- Ultimately a Moral Issue, Says Cardinal Mahony LOS ANGELES, JUNE 15, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Legislative debates over restructuring the U.S. immigration system should approach any policy change as a moral issue that protects... by Beth | May 25, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Compassion, the journal of the Passionists, devoted an entire issue to the topic ‘Changing Faces of Immigration’Among the topics covered… Changing faces of immigration � Thinking about immigration � Welcome, world – diversity in a parish... by Beth | May 24, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
SYDNEY, May 12, 2006 (anglicare.org.au): Anglicare Sydney�s Chief Executive Officer, Peter Kell says that the system of off-shore mandatory detention is cruel and unnecessary. �Placing asylum seekers in off-shore detention centres is an unnecessarily punitive way...