From Billy Penn: In Philly’s Kensington section this summer, the convergence of three nonprofits has amounted to 500 free lunches that otherwise would have never existed. […]
From Philadelphia Media Network: Inflation hit 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in June as costs for gasoline, housing, and food kept growing. At the same time, wages grew by less than 3 percent, hardly making up for increased costs for those items. […]
From The Philadelphia Citizen: Nationally one in five homeless people had a serious mental illness, and the same number had a substance abuse problem, and in Philly, drug overdose is the number one cause of death among homeless people. These issues are, as may be expected, intertwined, and have created a need for programs like the Citizens Project in large cities across the country. […]
From Generocity: According to a Chapin Hall report released in April 2018, LGBTQ young adults (ages 18-24) are more than twice as likely to experience homelessness as their non-LGBTQ peers and at least 40 percent of all homeless youth nationally identify as LGBTQ. […]
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky joined #WitnessesChat, a monthly conversation hosted by Witnesses to Hunger, a research and advocacy group comprised of mothers and caregivers of young children who have experienced hunger and poverty, to talk about improving reporting on poverty. […]
A little over 50 years ago, Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty when the national poverty rate was 19 percent; some $5 trillion later, it’s 16 percent today. Isn’t it time to think differently about how to prosecute that war? From: The Philadelphia Citizen […]
This 2018 revival called “The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Renewal” has already sparked a series of protests in about 40 state capitals as well as Washington and is slated to peak with a large D.C. rally on June 23. From: Philadelphia Media Network […]
New Century Trust Executive Director Carey Morgan discusses her organization’s effort to support women saving for retirement and other initiatives to aid groups focused on women and girls. From: ParaTiMujer Radio Program […]
From WHYY: The new Poor People’s Campaign is organized around “four evils” – systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and environmental devastation.
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From WURD Radio: Nijmie Dzurinko of the Poor People’s Campaign of PA talks to WURD Radio about why she and others are organizing a national revival of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 1968 call for economic justice—and why she believes the movement must be led by those who earn the least.
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