Poverty

We are having a conversation, social worker to social worker, about the older constituents and clients who we each try...

A troubling new report released recently by the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research documents...

As Single Room Occupancy Housing (SRO) celebrates its 30 years of service, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mr....

The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from...

‘Make Life Worth Living’, a photography exhibition by Nick Hedges, is currently on display at the Science Museum in London. It...

Paul Ryan pretending to wash pans. Recently, Paul Ryan released a new anti-poverty plan in which he claims will empower...

“Everybody in the Mississippi Delta was a racist, white or black. Racism was built into our bones. It is a...

I have often expressed my intellectual, personal and ethical discomfort with the extensive 'subjectification', more trendily termed "participation', of poor...

The arrest of 12 and 13 year old boys for aggravated robbery and murder respectively in West Auckland a couple of weeks...

President Obama Announcing his My Brother's Keeper Initiative On May 30, 2014, President Barack Obama met with the My Brother's...

In the city of Austin Texas a group of  people have come together and begun to build small mini pod...

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview F. Frederic Fouad who is an attorney for a Japanese commercial law practice,...

Recently in Utah, a group of up to 40 students at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City had their school lunches...

Have you ever experienced someone who lives in deep poverty, I am talking about someone whom its obvious that they...

Being “green” has become the newest fad, which few could argue is a bad thing.  The part that many aren’t...

Grocery options are limited on the far South Side. (Image: Zol87 CC by/nc) What is a ‘Food Desert’? A generally...

Corporate Welfare vs Social Welfare I've dreamed of one day moving home again to have my future children surrounded by...

The inspiration for this article is the result of a recently published article: "'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but...

Did you know buying Dixie cups, Angel Soft toilet tissue, or Brawny paper towels were part of the Koch Brothers...

If providing health care and a social safety net for citizens were an Olympic event, the United States would be...