by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Philadelphia; Denver; Ashland, OR. What do these cities have in common? They are all addressing homelessness and poverty by making it a crime. A Painful Truth And in Sunday’s edition of the USA Today, we shared a painful truth: they’re not alone. Across the country,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 6, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Huffington Post article Smartphones Bring Hope, Frustration As Substitute For Computers  states, “When Erick Huerta was growing up in Los Angeles, his family could not afford a computer. His mother sold tamales from a street-side stall, and his father drove a...
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 5, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
And it does not mean sending peanut butter sandwiches. Â 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...
