by John Freund, CM | Jul 4, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The State of Homelessness in America 2014 is the fourth in a series of reports that chart progress in ending homelessness in the United States. It examines trends in homelessness between 2012 and 2013, trends in populations at-risk of homelessness from 2011 to 2012,...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Cardboard Homeless – Appearances are deceiving! What you don’t know about some of the homeless people people walk past. RethinkHomelessness asked our #homeless friends to write down a fact about themselves that other people wouldn’t know just by...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
CALL FOR PAPERS -Prosperity, Poverty and the Purpose of Business Rediscovering Integral Human Development in the Catholic Social Tradition It has been said that the character of a people is found in the way that it treats its poor and marginalized. So what is the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 24, 2014 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A view of Pope Francis’ Gospel of Joy from South America… The Poor and Poverty in Evangelii Gaudium by Víctor Codina, SJ. The thought provoking article covers 10 points. 1. Symbolic gestures The new Pope Francis, before giving many speeches and writing...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 10, 2014 | Justice and Peace
Unfortunately such reports are becoming more and more common. “Thrown in jail for being poor: the booming for-profit probation industry” “Many poor Americans face jail when they can’t pay steep fines for nonviolent crimes, like $1,000 for stealing a...