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Articles on Poverty
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Good news on Poverty September 2020
Poverty used to mean hunger, now too often in means obesity August 2020
Unemployment up, poverty down - It’s all topsy-turvy July 2020
Universal Basic Income - Lots of labels but will it work? June 2020
The Conflicting Health Crisis – Poverty and Covid 19 - May 2020
Homelessness is solvable - April 2020
Welfare Lessons from a deadly virus - March 2020
Trump Quietly Spends February 2020
Without coordinating the pieces, the whole doesn’t work - January 2020
No income, but money to spend - December 2019
Poop on Streets – Enough Already - November 2019
Poverty Level drops in 2018 – can the economy do more? - October 2019
Living under $2.00 a day in America - August 2019
What do the poor want – opportunity or welfare? - July 2019
After Obamacare there are still 28.5 million Americans uninsured - June 2019
Breaking it down to fix it – Minnesota VA is doing it right May 2019
How much is too little? One woman’s impact on measuring poverty April 2019
Not your father's IRS March 2019
“You’ve Told Your Own Story” February 2019
New Book - Poverty in the United States January 2019
FederalSafetyNet.com gets half a million views December 2018
Don't take away pride November 2018
It Takes a Village October 2018
Jobs aren’t to blame September 2018
One in four payments made improperly; 10 years running August 2018
Want to help end poverty? July 2018
Toxic Charity June 2018
New book on Poverty, Charity and Welfare April 2018
How to talk our way out of poverty - 30 million words to be precise March 2018
"Something for Something" is catching on February 2018
Welfare reform; higher benefits and lower deficits - Really? January 2018
We are going to have to earn our way out of this December 2017
If you "get" you ought to "give" November 2017
How do you measure a food banks success? October 2017
That Stubborn 10% - September 2017
Our Miserable 21st Century - August 2017
Welfare for People or Corporations? - July 2017
Only 13% of poor people want welfare benefits free of obligations - June 2017
A local Poverty Saint - May 2017
The number one rule of mentoring – no money! April 2017
FCC expands welfare – Congress and the President nowhere in sight March 2017
$ 15 Billion for sweets? February 2017
Religion and the calling to take care of the poor January 2017
Charity or friendship? December 2016
What do the poor think about welfare? November 2016
Nobody washes a rented car – why does welfare expect them to? October 2016
Who was the best poverty president – Clinton, Bush or Obama? September 2016
Feelings, nothing more than feelings August 2016
A Better Way? Or more rags in the ragbag of welfare programs? July 2016
A hand up, not a handout - June 2016
A The first step to win the war on poverty - May 2016
If only fed beds made a home - April 2016
2 Thessalonians chapter 3 - Vanished March 2016
The alms of good advice February 2016
Who pauperized who? January 2016
A Christmas Story - A Great Big, Unwavering Heart December 2015
Government to solve poverty, citizens absolved November 2015
American’s play the system; GAO says $500 billion missing October 2015
A Culture Without Jobs September 2015
Great Society Turns 50; Poverty Remains Sticky August 2015
Mr. Friedman and Dr. King both like cash July 2015
How much is too little? June 2015
Call it blaming the individual if you like, but .... May 2015
What I possess doesn’t own me. April 2015
Eliminate the poverty pimps March 2015
Your grandfather knew how to solve poverty February 2015
Unwanted, unloved and neglected - Mother Teresa ought to know January 2015
The perfect storm of bureaucracy December 2014
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