NOBODY GOES IT ALONE: REFRAMING THE POVERTY DISCUSSION
By KIRSTEN LODAL, CEO and co-founder I've been struck lately by how misguided our prevailing societal images still are of the people we call "low-income" or "poor." (This election season's "welfare queen" -- throwback debate about food stamps comes to mind.) And this is despite the fact that nea ...
NEW YORK TIMES: IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY, IT'S TIME FOR A REVOLUTION
By DAVID BORNSTEIN Is it time to rethink our basic assumptions about the way we fight poverty? ...
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