“THE AMERICAN DEFICIT: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get rid of it. Not too many [...]
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Poverty, 2.0
As the new year’s news cycles turn to presidential politics and primary contests, there is another story our leaders should be talking a lot about—and [...]
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“REMEMBERING FRED SHUTTLESWORTH: THE MOST COURAGEOUS MAN IN AMERICA”
“That Fred Shuttlesworth did not become a martyr was not for lack of trying… There was not a person in the civil rights movement who [...]
Read More“REMEMBERING A POOR BABY”
When Britany Lewis was born, no trumpets and glad tidings or even balloons and baby showers greeted her arrival. She was just another poor baby. [...]
Read More“A PRAYER FOR THIS HOLY SEASON”
God help us to end poverty in our time. The poverty of having a child with too little to eat and no place to sleep, [...]
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“MORE FACES OF CHILD POVERTY”
Would you recognize a poor child when you saw one? Nine-year-old Carolyn Latimore and her sister Aalijah, eight, are beautiful little girls with big smiles [...]
Read More“YOUNG PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR OUR NATION”
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant—and I would dream [...]
Read More“THE WORST FEELING”
“Being hungry is possibly the worst feeling anyone could ever experience, and honestly, when you're hungry, you can't be productive, and you can't really do [...]
Read More“CELEBRATING YOUNG PEOPLE BEATING THE ODDS!”
I'm often asked, what's wrong with our children? Too often we focus on the negative without celebrating young people who, despite the odds unfairly stacked [...]
Read More“CORPORATE LOOPHOLES: THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG”
Picture an iceberg. Many children know the danger from the "Titanic Song" they learn in school or summer camp. One verse goes like this: "It [...]
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