The tired and ineffective strategy of imposing work requirements on poor people, most of whom are already working, is more about the pernicious narrative it supports than results. A similar program was stopped by a federal judge in Kentucky, because it did not consider the healthcare implications for those involved.
The Gates Foundation is skeptical that extreme poverty will be eliminated by 2030, as the UN aims to achieve, but it does outline a path for further global poverty reduction.
A Milwaukee study concludes that the provision of affordable housing needs both supply-side and demand-side answers.
A very large US foundation sent out an announcement yesterday about a major new initiative it’s funding to address poverty. Buried in the middle, it had something to say about the importance of “narrative” consciousness about “the poor.”
President Trump’s executive order views poverty as a personal failing of effort. We know this playbook, and it’s not pretty.
A new research center at the University of California, Riverside aims to link the university to the surrounding community through a multi-faceted research and community engagement agenda that aims to address poverty in the region.
A social science journal reexamines and updates policies and programs aimed to support low-income people.
Unlike other communities where schools have been turned over to private organizations to operate as independent charter schools, in Waco, the idea is to draw on the unique strengths of a nonprofit organization to enhance the current operation of the school.
A new report funded by the Gates Foundation proposes a five-point plan to help the poor make it out of poverty, but the steps seem insufficient to meet the scope of the challenge.
It would appear that “adopting” poor families is not a good model of holiday giving. Increasingly, nonprofits are challenging dismissive assumptions embedded in the toy distribution scenes we have so taken for granted.
