In a recent article from Watching The Watchers, Lee Russ concludes the following:
Poverty and violence are not, it seems, merely some abstract philosophical states that matter only in the context of some partisan discussion of economic and social policy (nor are poverty and violence unrelated to each other). There is considerable evidence indicating that both […]
A recent editorial on jconline.com describes how some schools have overcome the achievement gap. I include an excerpt:
Chenoweth cites schools from coast to coast that have extricated themselves from what she calls the demography myth — the one that implies low-income means low-achieving.
High schools in Worcester, Mass., Elmont, N.Y., and elsewhere where poverty is an […]
In a recent commentary, Christine Jeske explains how she and her husband learned from poor villagers Nicaragua. I include an excerpt:
One special influence to us was a man who quit grad school to move to El Salvador, where he lived through a civil war. He challenged us, “Don’t go somewhere thinking you have the answers. […]
Lethia Swett Mann recently wrote an article describing her hope that one day we will fulfill King’s dream:
Four days before his death, on March 31, 1968, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Dr. Martin Luther King said, “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and […]
A recent report on israelinsider.com says that a third of Holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty:
Some 80,000 of the 260,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel are living under the poverty line, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund, Ynetnews reported. That is almost a third of all Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Many of them suffer from […]
Karen Nakamura explains in a recent article how poverty and starvation cause the so-called immigration crisis the United States:
CNN’s Larry King interviewed James Edward Olmos during last summer’s Latino workers’ demonstrations. King was discussing illegal immigration when Olmos suggested that maybe people were flooding across the border because there were few jobs at home, small […]
The city’s food bank has created a program that will try to help alleviate hunger by bringing healthy habits back to the classroom and hopefully, back home with students as well. NY1’s Roger Clark filed the following report.
It’s a twist on the Food Bank for New York’s BackPack Program, which provides kids at this after […]
Ron Harris reports that veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are increasingly showing up homeless at shelters and agencies across the nation. I include an excerpt:
As the nearly 1.5 million military personnel who have been deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to return home, more are expected to join […]