by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2011 | Vincentian Family
John Falzon, Chief Executive Officer of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia, writes that according to a recent OECD report Australia has one of the lowest unemployment benefits in the developed world. Since the mid-1990s, people experiencing...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty statistics in a one minute video presentation which puts poverty in the developed world into perspective. This video offers a simplified and visually engaging way to think about global poverty as the distance between the 231 peope who live...
by Beth | Feb 26, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Understanding what it is like to be poor takes first hand knowledge. You have to experience it. If you’ve never been poor, you have no idea how hard it really is. Poverty is greatly misunderstood. It is a cycle that sucks people in and doesn’t want to let them go. For...
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...
