Gentrification plays a major role in poverty. Basically, gentrification refers to removing poor people from their homes usually by purchasing the building and replacing low-cost apartments with high-priced luxury apartments with tough application procedures. This most often happens in cities, where demand exists for both high-priced and low-priced apartments, in that cities tend to have […]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Immigration and Poverty
On Wednesday, Robert J. Samuelson wrote an article about poverty in which he blamed stagnant and rising poverty rates on immigration. Since then, I have noticed many blog posts and letters to the editor about Samuelson’s article. Samuelson’s observation notes a common overlooked factor in poverty. Simply put, statistics show that the United States poverty […]
International Literacy Day
In recognition of International Literacy Day, I will post today about literacy. Anthony Westbury recently wrote about illiteracy in both the United States and the world. I include an excerpt: “If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher,” was the message on a popular bumper sticker a few years back. There are an awful lot […]
National Fund for Workforce Solutions
A recent Boston Globe editorial talked about organizations helping enable homeless, low-skilled, and low-income people to take care of themselves mainly through education and better employment. I include an excerpt: There’s an emerging cure for dead-end jobs and unemployment. Instead of letting people languish in homelessness or despair, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is […]
Earned-Income Tax Credit
A recent Washington Post editorial addressed Michael Bloomberg and the earned-income tax credit. I include an excerpt: Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is not running for president. Yet that didn’t stop him from coming to Washington last week to promote an expansion of the earned-income tax credit as the next phase in the war on […]
One Third of Israeli Children Live in Poverty
Roy Goldenberg recently reported that one third of Israeli children live in poverty. I include an excerpt: The National Insurance Institute Poverty Report for 2006 states that Israel had 1,649,800 persons living below the poverty line. The proportion of poor persons was unchanged from 2005, when there were 1,630,500 poor. The proportion of children living […]