Update: Long story short, my favorite post is When I’m Holding My Daughter. Check it out! My daughter just turned 3 last month. I swear she’s just the cutest thing ever. Pretty much every morning she comes in—apparently after patiently waiting for the sun to just barely start rising—and… Read more… I doubt you would […]
Category Archives: Recommended Reading
Equal Rights to Natural Resources Can End Poverty
I just finished reading a great book a few days ago: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Feminist, Anarchist, Genius. I love Voltairine de Cleyre’s writing! She wrote about various topics, but poverty came up often. In her essay Why I Am An Anarchist, she wrote something with which I completely agree: “The problem […]
How Poor People Get Nickel and Dimed
Megan McArdle recently posted about how poor people get forced into higher-priced alternatives. She credits that observation to the book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Basically, poor people do not have enough money saved up to make big purchases or investments. People from more affluent backgrounds will have money saved up […]
Plunge2Poverty
I just read this interesting article about a Waco minister who created a poverty simulation called Plunge2poverty. He released a guidebook that other organizations can use to recreate the poverty simulation: Plunge2poverty: An Intensive Poverty Simulation Experience Basically, the simulation consists of giving 40 simulation dollars to participants from privileged or middle-class backgrounds. The participants […]
Ending Hunger Now – The Book
A friend of mine recently directed me to the website for Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge To Persons Of Faith, and recommended the book to me. In the book, George McGovern, Bob Dole, and Donald E. Messer share their conviction that ending hunger is a religious imperative and a human priority. Writing for congregations and […]
Eurocentrism in U.S. History
I recently received a news story from my friend, D.J Pine, about a push by minority communities for more complete and inclusive American History. Here’s a short excerpt: American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed […]