by John Freund, CM | Aug 13, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Australia’s housing and homelessness services are stretched and unable to meet growing demand for services, but are closely followed by community legal services which are facing chronic underfunding, longer waiting lists, and turning away greater numbers of...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 6, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In the past several years, more and more people have been forced to use desperate means of survival, such as begging, living in slums or going through rubbish bins looking for food or items they can recycle or sell. But now, people who resort to these survival tactics...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 31, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
New proposals in Great Britan seek to measure ‘faults’ of poor, rather than poverty The Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Great Britain and United Reformed Church are accusing the Government of continuing a trend of blaming the poor as new proposals to...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 26, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
US Poverty On Track To Reach Highest Level Since The 1960s according to BusinessInsider and the AP. The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 23, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
A far-reaching new (British) study suggests a staggering $21 trillion in assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet – and even solve the euro crisis according to a report in the British...
