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...
by Beth | Feb 16, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
What is happening on the street sometimes appears to be the equivalent of a blood sport. One with no rules and that makes no sense. When assessing each individual’s struggle to avoid facing the hole they are in, it’s clear that the denial factor can...
by Beth | Feb 15, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Jim Claffey presents candid reflections in the aftermath of his Belleville workshop presentation “Project Uplift and Systemic Change.” He shared the ways the project was and was not involved in systemic change. Of particular interest is his presentation of...
by Beth | Feb 14, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
It’s no coincidence that the largest room at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul building is the dining room. In an organization where 1,000 meals are served a day, the poor are no longer just being fed, they are also learning to cook and become great chefs, according...
