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Vinnies in Australia highlight power company rip-offs

by John Freund, CM | Sep 7, 2011 | Vincentian Family

A St Vincent de Paul Society New South Wales Energy Report discovers that customers are being enticed to change providers by cheap deals, only to be left out of pocket with excessive fees. And in a self-fulfilling cycle, those profits are then being used by power...

The daily ingenuity of the world’s poor

by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses

Most of the world’s newspapers are running features on how to survive in a bad economy. But I have seen no articles on “How to survive on less than $2 a day”. Yet over 2.7 billion people in the world live on $2 or less a day. How do they do it? How...

How Many Poor People in America? Heritage Foundation Says Darn Few

by John Freund, CM | Aug 12, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family

Is this a case of the poor caught in the crossfire between political parties? (And should Vincentian folk care?) Seems that the Heritage Foundation claims that “many of the 30 million Americans defined as ‘poor’ and in need of government assistance” are actually doing...

Has poverty become a crime in America?

by John Freund, CM | Aug 11, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the classic, “Nickel and Dimed”, thinks so. Ten years ago she  started  what turned into a national dialog about  impact of the 1996 welfare reform on the “working poor” in the United States. Now, she...

Beyond the mantra of systemic change…

by John Freund, CM | Aug 9, 2011 | Vincentian Family

We have heard the mantra about John Paul II’s challenge t0  Vincentians –  “Understand underlying causes and work toward long-term solutions”. How do we move beyond the mantra? With the theme  “Building Bridges Out Of Poverty” the...
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