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 […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
The Rich Attacking The Poor
Gary Younge recently wrote an article about poverty in the United States. At one point in the article, he shows how the Bush administration has pushed more working class people into poverty. I include an excerpt: So it would have seemed last Tuesday when the US census bureau revealed its latest findings on income, poverty […]
Local Anti-Poverty Groups Required
Large organizations cannot end poverty, at least not by themselves. They can’t do it right for the same reasons big public schools cannot correctly raise children. The children each need their own parents who can meet their individual needs, and similarly we need to fight poverty on a local, grassroots level. We will never find […]
Poverty and Racism Continue
The Daily Times published an article about recent poverty data from the US Census Bureau. I include an excerpt: More than one in ten Americans, or 36.5 million people, live in poverty in the United States, with children and blacks the worst hit, an annual report by the US Census Bureau showed Tuesday. According to […]
A Poor Mindset
Today, I read the most interesting article about poverty that I’ve read in a long time. In the recent article, Steven Pearlstein explains the ideas of Charles Karelis in regards to the seemingly counterintuitive behaviors common to poor people. I include an excerpt: The reason the poor are poor is that they are more likely […]
United States Housing Crisis
Michael Stetz recently wrote an article about how the housing crisis adds to the poverty picture in the United States. I include an excerpt: Nationally, more people are losing their homes because of the subprime mortgage meltdown. Wages have been flat. We feel fortunate to pay 3 bucks for a gallon of gas. A growing […]