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.
In an initiative that follows the ambitious War on Poverty by more than 50 years, four senators and the Bipartisan Policy Center offer a blueprint once again for transforming the historically poor Appalachia region—and fall short.
The “Fight for $15” continues with the introduction of a new bill in the U.S. Senate.
A recent study shows significant poverty present in most Congressional districts, both Democratic and Republican, and calls on both parties to come together on poverty solutions.
