To break cycle of child poverty, teaching mom and dad to get along, By Jennifer Ludden, July 8, 2014, NPR: “After a half-century of the War on Poverty, an anti-poverty agency in Ohio has concluded that decades of assistance alone just hasn’t changed lives. Instead, it says, the ongoing breakdown of the family is to blame. ‘You’re seeing the same people come year after year, and in some cases generation to generation. And so then you think, why is that happening?’ says Jennifer Jennette, program manager of the Community Action Commission of Erie, Huron and Richland Counties in Ohio. The family breakdown has only intensified since the controversial Moynihan Report 50 years ago declared out-of-wedlock births to be a main cause of black poverty. Today, for all women without a college degree, more than half of births are outside marriage. . .”
Day: July 10, 2014
Poverty Definition – India
Setting a high bar for poverty in India, By Manu Joseph, July 9, 2014, New York Times: “It is not uncommon for Indians to stand in a line to receive alms from a politician as he gives away clothes, pots and laptops that would make Apple laugh. This is a custom that has survived from a time when the theater of charity was enough to make the poor feel grateful. But they have since come to regard such alms as political buffoonery and now expect substantial assistance from the government. To bring order to the public spending that subsidizes hundreds of millions of lives, and to ensure that the poorest receive what is meant for them, India is on a constant quest for a meaningful definition of poverty. . .”