by Beth | Oct 10, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
No one knows what has happened to the mothers, children, and elderly who left welfare. When welfare reform was signed, unemployment levels hovered at 3 percent. The decision to end the nation’s oldest safety net was based on the assumptions that a job could lift...
by Beth | Oct 9, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On 27 September we will enter the second and last year of this campaign. The initiatives undertaken in the various countries where the Vincentian Family is present have been numerous. The members of the Commission for the Project have received dozens of these...
by Beth | Oct 2, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
    One computer with Internet access is available to the homeless people who sell the Street Vibes newspaper in Cincinnati. The computer is constantly in use, which proves the need for more, says Susan Knight of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless....
by Beth | Oct 2, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Online and off the street” – An inspiring account illustrating how computer technology can help even the hard-core homeless find their way.Homeless man reboots his life By Karen Samples The Cincinnati Enquirer     For six years, Mark Pierce...
by Beth | Oct 2, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
New York, Sep 30 2002 5:00PM In his opening remarks to the third meeting of the UN Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, said while technology is not “a magic formula that is going to solve...
by Beth | Sep 28, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty and Income Data Show that the Poor Became Poorer in 2001The following report has been posted to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities web site: ANALYSIS OF CENSUS BUREAU’S POVERTY AND INCOME DATA FOR 2001 By Robert Greenstein, Wendell Primus and...
