Tuesday, September 9, 2008

September - Poverty

Article: The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy
By: Fred Block, Anna C. Korteweg, and Kerry Woodward, with Zach Schiller and Imrul Mazid

"Why does the world's wealthiest country let so many languish in grinding poverty? And why is the situation getting worse, not better?"


This is our "compassion gap" - a deep divide between our moral commitments and how we actually treat those in poverty.