by sjs | Nov 9, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The International Food Policy Research Institute has released a report showing mixed progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty and hunger by 2015: despite improvements in some areas, poverty among the ultra poor in some regions...
by sjs | Nov 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The U.S. Bishops today expressed strong support for restructuring the Child Tax Credit so that it more effectively reaches the poorest working families. In a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Bishops state that tax policy must be judged by “how it...
by sjs | Nov 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Compassion International announced today a $5 million investment over the next five years in Opportunity International, a microcredit lender serving over a million poor entrepreneurs in developing countries, to fund microfinance operations aimed at the working poor in...
by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Michael Stamm, who won gold and silver medals for swimming in the 1972 Olympics, is now training people to cook for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Oakland, California. “We want,” he says, “to give people a hand up, not a handout.” Read...
by annaread | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Because of the initiative of a St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteer, it has become easier for organizations in a Florida county to supply food to those who need it. The Society worked with the local food bank and municipality to open a drop site for the food bank and...
