Tag: poverty

Explore the remarkable journey of Rakotomalala from poverty in Madagascar to pursuing education in the United States with unwavering faith.

According to the Low-Income Housing Coalition, there is no state or county in the United States where someone working full-time at minimum wage can afford a modest two-bedroom apartment. This column explores why that is through one women's personal experience in Las Vegas.

For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.

The Census Bureau released new poverty data showing a stunning reversal in economic security over the course of last year, providing a wake up call to America's poverty.

I mentioned at the conference that a common stereotype about Jews is that we’re all wealthy to some degree; the complementary myth, of course, is that there are no poor Jews.

Anyone who has planted a seed before knows the feeling of wanting to return and find a huge shade tree growing in the place where it was sown. And in development work, you hope that the tree is also producing enough fruit to feed the entire village!

True compassion and true sacrifice for others require that we surrender to God's influence over us, which will sustain us when our cheap human versions of those words fail us and we are tempted to put up the barricades and scream, “No more!”