by John Freund, CM | Sep 13, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
EVOKE is a social network game that amounts to a ten-week crash course in changing the world. The goal of the social network game is to help empower people all over the world to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. With echos of the... by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Most of the world’s newspapers are running features on how to survive in a bad economy. But I have seen no articles on “How to survive on less than $2 a day”. Yet over 2.7 billion people in the world live on $2 or less a day. How do they do it? How... by John Freund, CM | Aug 12, 2011 | Disasters and Responses, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Parents are being forced to choose which of their children receive water and meager rations of food.” A Choice No Parent Should Have to Make (courtesy of Heifer International.) Parents fleeing the devastating famine on foot — sometimes with as many as... by John Freund, CM | Aug 12, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Is this a case of the poor caught in the crossfire between political parties? (And should Vincentian folk care?) Seems that the Heritage Foundation claims that “many of the 30 million Americans defined as ‘poor’ and in need of government assistance” are actually doing... by John Freund, CM | Aug 11, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the classic, “Nickel and Dimed”, thinks so. Ten years ago she started what turned into a national dialog about impact of the 1996 welfare reform on the “working poor” in the United States. Now, she... by John Freund, CM | Jul 31, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today introduced an Internet-based mapping tool that pinpoints the location of “food deserts” around the country and provides data on population characteristics of census tracts where residents have limited access to...
