If you spend much time around church food pantries, and the government-administered food assistance programs that are often run out of churches, then you might
According to experts, children from low-income households are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. NBC News Plain Sight has the report here.
In three brief years, The Hospitality Center, founded by Deacon Kevin Stewart and the people of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Racine, Wisconsin has become
Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic writes:
Dylan Matthews of Vox writes that there is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that simply giving poor people money is an effective means of
President Obama Obama’s has announced new carbon regulations for the U.S. 17 percent of the world’s emissions come from the United States. The new regulations
Salon.com examines how the American welfare system both helped and hurt the neediest Americans during the period 1983-2004. According to the article:
More than 46 million Americans live below the poverty line, and income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level since the 1920s, according
Poverty porn, the practice of playing up the suffering of needy people to elicit an emotional response, and perhaps a donation, is a knotty problem,
White Mainline and evangelical Protestants are less likely than Catholics, or the general public, to believe that the government should do more to battle poverty