Inner City Poverty Campaigns

In Harlem, Obama Embraces a New Approach to Poverty

Paul Tough | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Geoffrey Canada, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Child Poverty, Geoffrey Canada, US Poverty, Barack Obama, Harlem, Children, Harlem Children's Zone, Politics News
Paul Tough

The most innovative policy in Obama's platform is his pledge to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the country. What we spend early on in a child's life, we more than get back later.

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Obama Vs McCain: OTB Policy Wonks Weigh In On Where The Candidates Stand On Key Issues

Off The Bus | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Auto Industry, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Wall Street Bailout, John McCain, Crime, Terrorism, Pakistan, Joe Biden, Economic Crisis, Violence, Regulation, Criminal Justice, Media, Sex Education, Barack Obama, Automakers, Darfur, Fcc, Sudan, Iraq War, Genocide, Sarah Palin, Detroit, Financial Crisis, Election 2008, Church State, Home News
Off The Bus

As the Wall Street crisis and recent bombing in Pakistan have made all too clear, there are crucial global, financial and social issues that the next president will be focused to grapple with. This week OffTheBus writers have tossed aside the lipstick and plunged into some of the most pressing issues in the election by analyzing key policy differences between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 09.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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Black in America on CNN: Are We There Yet?

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, Pbs, Public Schools, New Orleans, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Healthy Living, Education, Inner City Obama, Race, Barck Obama, AIDS Washington D.C., Cnn, Race Relations, Poverty and Health, Cable News, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.

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