poverty

Homeless for a night

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

A homeless advocacy group is challenging all Democrat Presidential candidates to sleep on the streets for one night in order to bring to their attention just how the other half lives…
[a] challenge laid down this month by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), a non-profit advocacy organization, to all of the announced candidates in […]

Poverty Rate declines

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

…and John Edwards marches on. He is persistently pro “government coerced theft and redistribution of property”…
From the Associated Press:
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent — were living in poverty last year. That’s down from 12.6 percent in 2005.
The median household income was $48,200, a slight increase from the […]