Programs like food stamps aren’t luxury items like Pay-per-View or Caribbean vacations, to be easily cut from our family budget. In too many households, they are an absolute necessity. What greater American value can there be than making sure all people in the most prosperous nation on earth have enough to eat?
Christians err when they fall into the trap of believing that charity should be based on whether those in need deserve help or not, contends
Leaders of “The Circle of Protection,” a broad coalition of church groups concerned about poverty issues, asked Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to create videos
The Huffington Post is running a series spotlighting problems that are not being discussed by either political party this election season. As part of this
“How will what we are doing here affect or involve people living in poverty?”
More than 46 million Americans — one in seven of us — gets help from the federal government to feed ourselves and our families. If you’re surprised at how many Americans receive help in buying food, you may be even more surprised who they are. As it turns out, millions of Americans with jobs also need the help.
“The Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Today we don’t have to go to Africa to find poor children. Fully one quarter of American kids live in poverty. And they are not easily seen – even in Newark, whose downtown landscape is dominated by the Prudential Center and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. I don’t know if kids are starving, but they certainly are hungry.
As good as the news may have been for one Episcopal charity attacking homelessness, 37 percent of Baltimore children continue to live in poverty.
Hunger is visible if you have the eyes to see.