by John Freund, CM | May 26, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
FactCheck.org clarifies some distortions about “Lifeline, a federally mandated program that reimburses phone companies with a monthly subsidy of $9.25 for each low-income customer who uses a landline or a cell phone. The program has allowed millions of persons...
by John Freund, CM | May 15, 2012 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The U.S. bishops’ leader on domestic justice repeated his calls for Congress to resist proposed budget reductions that would cut funding to programs that help the most vulnerable members of society. “A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on...
by John Freund, CM | May 12, 2012 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Edmund Rice Center of the Australian Catholic University writes in a piece that looks at the austerity discussions taking place in so many countries in the world… “As several countries try to pay off huge public debt due to the financial crisis and...
by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
InvisiblePeople.tv: Changing the story of homelessness. ** Mother’s Day is this Sunday. Support Moms who are homeless and everything they go through for their families, by sharing these stories. and forward to a friend for Mother’s Day. Jean and her...
by John Freund, CM | May 5, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
And it does not mean sending peanut butter sandwiches. A visitor writes…”I bought a jar of peanut butter & saw it had a sticker on the lid, to go to childhungerEndsHere.com and enter an 8-digit code printed on the sticker. This donated one meal to a...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
An article in US Catholic raises the question of competing visions of Catholic Social Teaching as reflected in approaches to the national budget. Another article on Faith and Public Life raises the question of priorities in terms of energy expended on various issue...