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Jay Murdock
Jun 5, 20198 min read
Our forgotten towns: struggle, resilience, love and respect in ‘back-row America’
In his new book, Chris Arnade lays bare what life is like for America’s marginalized poor – and exposes the broken social systems that...
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Jay Murdock
Mar 15, 20123 min read
Homelessness a Racial Matter: Why Are Black Families Over-represented in Homeless Shelters?
Ralph da Costa Nunez:   President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness – Posted: 03/14/2012 5:23 pm When U.S. attorney general...
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Jay Murdock
Mar 13, 20112 min read
America Is a Bastion of Hope Not a Beacon of Nope!
Rep. Chaka Fattah: Representative,  Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District Posted: March 12, 2011 12:24 PM House Republicans have...
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Jay Murdock
Dec 23, 20103 min read
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like A Christmas Carol
Ralph da Costa Nunez:Â President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness Posted: December 16, 2010 12:00 PM Welfare as we knew it...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 24, 20101 min read
Three Legged Chairs
make the poem like the hood couches and three legged chairs at the curb scrawled graffiti on abandon buildings fetid damp smell...
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Jay Murdock
Aug 18, 20101 min read
Old Man
Like an image from an Ansel Adams photograph, his dark brown skin stretched thin over a face that has seen better days. He hurried down...
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