Food Stamps: A Recipient’s Perspective

Poverty, homelessness, and starvation are rampant in the world. This is nothing new and should never be taken lightly. Roughly, 795 million people in the world are chronically malnourished. That’s a startling number. But just how many people are starving or going without adequate food in America? One in six. For being the tenth wealthiest […]

Poverty Shatters Young Dreams

Garret Mathews recently wrote a column about the bitter reality of poverty: You’re taking a bunch of fifth-graders home from the pet store and the mall. They live on the poor side of town and don’t have many opportunities to go places. In some cases, their caregivers don’t even have cars. You get a good […]