Fighting Poverty Regionally Is Important, But Won’t Be Easy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 9th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
Fighting Poverty Regionally Is Important, But Won’t Be Easy
Elizabeth Kneebone in her recent posting urges a more regional approach to social service provision as a strategy to address the access and delivery issues noted by Scott Allard in his recent book, Out of Reach. I completely agree…
Sponsored Topics: Social work – Poverty – Philanthropy – Allard – United States
Marty Peretz: A Jew Hater In The White House Is Leading Obama Astray
Check out Matt Yglesias’ takedown of the increasingly nutty Marty Peretz. Peretz writes that “there is someone in [Obama’s] entourage who is leading him astray, gravely astray. And that someone has it in for Israel and for American Jews, too.”…
Sponsored Topics: American Jews – Israel – White House – Martin Peretz – United States
Why the Obama Administration Will Struggle to Reduce Poverty
During the recessions that occurred between 1980 and 1982, the national poverty rate increased by 2 full percentage points – more than 5 million persons entered poverty during that time. Poverty continued to increase after the 1982 recession officially…
Sponsored Topics: Poverty – Poverty threshold – United States – Economic – Society and Culture
