by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty statistics in a one minute video presentation which puts poverty in the developed world into perspective. This video offers a simplified and visually engaging way to think about global poverty as the distance between the 231 peope who live...
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...
