by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Uncategorized
It’s only a game! Or is it? Spent (http://playspent.org/ ) – PlaySpent is an online game that involves the player taking on the role of an unemployed, single parent who has to make it through the month on their last $1,000. The player does this by solving...
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 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Do you know what it’s like to live on $1.25 a day? One non-profit, Live58, wants to bring the experience to life for Internet users around the world. It launched Survive125, a choose-your-own-adventure style simulation of life in extreme poverty. You may not actually...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 1, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The website ThinkProgress writes that according to a new report from the Office of Research at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world. Of the 35 wealthy countries studied by UNICEF,...
by John Freund, CM | May 12, 2012 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Edmund Rice Center of the Australian Catholic University writes in a piece that looks at the austerity discussions taking place in so many countries in the world… “As several countries try to pay off huge public debt due to the financial crisis and...
