Again and again, we see poverty is about lack of choice.
A new study reveales that the employees that make the least amount of money are often cheated even out of that.
The study found that 26 percent of the workers had been paid less than the minimum wage the week before being surveyed and that one [...]
The National Coalition for the Homeless recently released a 194 page (!) report on the trend among cities to criminalize homelessness.
Of the 25 cities surveyed by the US Conference of Mayors for its annual Hunger and Homelessness Report, 19 reported an increase in homelessness in 2008. On average, cities reported a 12 percent increase. The [...]
This should be a normal post about July 4th, with me hanging out with other people who look just like, have the same jobs, attend the same church, and believe generally the same things. Or maybe this should be a post about the gigantic fireworks I shot off at my home state (Kansas). The 4th [...]
When the Church has the freedom itself to be poor among the poor, it will know how to use what riches it has. When the Church has that freedom, it will know also how to minister among the rich and powerful. When the Church has that freedom, it will be a missionary people again in [...]
Just what is poverty?
I have heard all sorts of answers to this, and many of them describe poverty (no money, no power, no choice) but it is hard to say exactly what poverty is, and why, for example, I can never be poor, regardless of how little money I have.
Watch this short video. The author [...]
For the record, being poor sucks.
No one has ever captured it as well for me as John Scalzi, a writer of some note. Scalzi wrote this in the immediate aftermath of Huricane Katrina, when there was a lot of folks dissing the poor for not leaving New Orleans in advance of the storm.
Being Poor
Being poor is [...]
