Low Income Communities

The Power of Social Networks to Break the Cycle of Poverty

Maurice Lim Miller | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Family Independence Initiative, Predatory Lending, Poverty, Social Networking, Economic Mobility, San Francisco Impact, Low-Income Communities, San Francisco News
Maurice Lim Miller

Throughout U.S. history, communities of poor people have left poverty. But none of these successes look like the public and philanthropic approaches we have relied on, nor the gravity-defying "up by your boot-straps" proposition.

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No Laughing Matter: Youth and "Stupak on Steroids"

Angela Baxter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Stupak, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Protect Life Act, Abortion Rights, Youth, Low-Income Communities, Minorities, Politics News
Angela Baxter

As a group, a community, a vulnerable population, young people and our needs have continually been left out of the debate around reproductive and sexual health and rights.

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Hatch Attacks Essential Services for Low-Income Communities Under Health Care Reform

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, HIV and AIDS, Prevention, Essential Service Providers, Health Care Reform, Medically Underinsured, Contraception, Help Committee, Low-Income Communities, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Republicans must turn on the lights, look under the bed, open the closet door and realize that neither women's health issues writ large, nor Planned Parenthood specifically are the bogeymen.

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A Whistle-Stop to Opportunity

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Inauguration, National Infrastructure, President Obama, Obama Administration, Small-Business Entrepeneurs, Job-Training Programs, Obama Inauguration Day, Low-Income Communities, Infrastructure, Vice President Biden, Obama Economic Plan, Obama Recovery Package, Obama Economic Policy, Obama Train Trip, Obama Train, Obama Biden Railroad Trip, Obama Biden Inaugural Railroad Trip, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

We need smarter, more targeted spending. We must invest in the people, places and projects that will spread the most opportunity to communities that need it.

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