Back on the Block

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...

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...

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...

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like A Christmas Carol

Ralph da Costa Nunez: President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness Posted: December 16, 2010 12:00 PM Welfare as we knew it...

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...

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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