Topic: Poverty

Yes, the rent is too damn high, but it's because the pay is too damn low

The 25-year-old Portland nonprofit has a proven method for ending the cycle of poverty for children—a 12.5 year mentorship

A 13-year-old hunger-fighting group with 10,000 student volunteers turns it attention to a crisis in its midst: campus hunger

This week the city released its annual poverty report, and a question on a local TV show made me wonder: Why do we keep coming up short in fighting the city's biggest scourge?

The students of Jubilee School demand a future that is safe and just for all children

The Philadelphia-based “anti-poverty technology B Corp” has provided more than a million people with financial services normally reserved for the well-off

WURD’s afternoon host on how the PPA punishes Philly’s poor

Mark Zuckerberg and other technoplutocrats are calling for a Universal Basic Income as a way to narrow income disparity. Should we buy what they’re selling?

Seattle’s Beacon Forest provides free native edibles to anyone in the city. Could the soda tax make it possible for a Philly group to do the same here?

Hopeworks, a Camden nonprofit that helps at-risk youth, is so successful, it’s facing an identity crisis. Should it expand into other cities or teach others how to do what it does?