Poverty

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• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: Obama's plan to create an index of poverty "works to justify expansion of liberal socialist polices."
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch: no equivalent page as of 2010-06-06; see sourcewatch:War on poverty
• Appropedia redirects to appropedia:Category:Poverty as of 2010-06-06

Related

• 2019/10/29 [L..T] [Serious Discussion] Attracting a higher homeless population with Durham's Affordable Housing Plan? “With a proposed $10,455,838 (pg. 4 in the referendum) to be spent on homeless programs over the next 5 years, how do we protect Durham from attracting an even greater number of homeless people?”
• 2018/07/06 [L..T] Director’s Desk: Portland has criminalized poverty and mental illness “Now we know: More than half of the people arrested in Portland last year were homeless. [...] The ACLU of Oregon issued a report last year documenting 224 laws around the state that target people who are homeless. It identified laws that target people for sleeping in public places, for begging for money and for loitering. In other words, ACLU of Oregon researchers identified laws that matter only if you are homeless.”
• 2014/07/16 [L..T] Everybody I know is on Food Stamps. "Everybody I know is on Food Stamps. We have jobs, but the jobs pay so low that we still need help. We stock shelves, pump gas, and cook your food. Stuff that needs to be done, but is somehow not "Real Work" or a "Real Job." Let's not even go into the fact that a good chunk of us went to college so we could have a "Real Job" but when we finished those "Real Jobs" turned out to be as mythical as the Yeti or Brownies."

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News

• 2006-05-16 How to Help the Poor Out of Poverty by Stephen C. Smith
• 2006-05-15 Poverty Traps and Global Development by Stephen C. Smith

Blog Entries

• 2007-01-28 Is Foreign Aid Really Working in Africa? by KevinFryatt: a review of The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working by Robert Calderisi
• 2006-05-22/24 Interview with Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums: part 1 part 2
  • blog entries were apparently updated 2007-03-15