Localized Poverty Tour

I often stress the importance of using grassroots organizations to alleviate poverty on a local level. Local organizations understand the local community and can meet the local community’s specific needs. Unfortunately, most communities have become too passive about poverty. Almost all people realize they would rather live in a world without poverty, but they do […]

UN Meeting on Poverty Scheduled for September

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has announced that he plans to co-host a UN meeting on poverty with the president of the (UN) General Assembly. The meeting will take place on September 25th, during the general debate of the UN General Assembly which runs from September 23 to October 3. September seems like far off, but […]

Poverty Line Drawn Too Low

I just read a good article by Dean Calbreath in which he points out the failures in the national poverty line. Basically, he shows that elderly people have a higher cost of living than what the poverty line says. For example, according to calculations from UCLA research, elderly people from San Diego generally need to […]