Results List
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Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
$265,000
Resource type: Grantee
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New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty Inc
$1,600,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute
$877,629
Resource type: Grantee
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Columbia Univ. National Center for Children in Poverty
$4,249,668
Resource type: Grantee
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End Child Poverty
$929,913
Resource type: Grantee
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Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in school, which can create a cycle of poverty across generations. Now, research is providing what could be crucial clues…
Resource type: News
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
Source: Gara LaMarche
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Resource type: News
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Many Seniors Can't Afford To Retire With Dignity, Initiative Says
Source: Older Americans Report
In reality, more than 1 in 10 seniors live in poverty, says new measure. What must older Americans really spend to buy the bare necessities? Much more than many policymakers and others realize, says a new initiative that aims to increase awareness about the number…
Resource type: News
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It’s Time to Protect and Strengthen Social Security, Not Undermine It
Source: Gara LaMarche
Media coverage that followed the release of Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson’s draft proposal earlier this month was, for many, the first public announcement that the fate of their Social Security benefits was even up for debate. It…
Resource type: News
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Communities deal with ageing populations
Source: Viet Nam News
By Hong Thuy THANH HOA — The burden of bringing up two mentally disabled sons has become easier for 69-year-old war invalid Do Thi Mui since she joined an older people's self-help club three months ago.A lonely and poverty-stricken widow, she often has to spend sleepless…
Resource type: News
