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. . .”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty