The Real Junk Food Project combats food poverty by taking food deemed inedible and cooking it up into delicious meals When Adam Smith speaks about his stand against food waste and poverty, he is passionate, unstoppable and completely unequivocal. “We shou ...
12 Jan 2018 - Tony Inglis
Medicaid expansion has made it possible to extend health care to many Oregonians suffering from homelessness Last week, as the rain fell hard, a group of Street Roots vendors held a blue tarp high above their heads. The truck had arrived with the bundles ...
12 Jan 2018 - Kaia Sand
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who led a global microfinance movement, aims to create a world where poverty doesn’t exist “Poor people are like bonsai plants. If you take the seed of the tallest tree in the forest and put it in a flowerpot, that tree will ...
5 Jan 2018 - Steven MacKenzie
COMMENTARY | We believe in justice for all – not just for those who can afford it "Equal justice under law” is a core value of our nation. But what happens when a victim of domestic violence, or an older adult facing eviction, can’t afford a lawyer? ...
11 Apr 2017 - Nick Fish
He was famous for defining literary journalism with his profiles of Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, but then he met a homeless woman near his house in East Manhattan The first encounter was on a cold Autumn afternoon in 1989. A woman carrying two bulky ba ...
4 Apr 2017 - Adam Sennott
Trump's grave promises make local and state housing legislation essential In the past few months, a bar owner brandished an assault rifle at police. He was drunk and upset at individuals experiencing homelessness in the community. Another man tossed ...
16 Mar 2017 - Israel Bayer
‘It is always right to give help,’ Pope Francis says in his second interview with street papers Pope Francis has always had a special connection to those living on the street. So much so that last year, in Rome, where approximately 6,000 vulnerable, poor ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stefano Lampertico
Javier Auyero's collection of student works explores poverty in today's American At my company’s holiday party in December, a coworker from the East Coast told me of her shock at Seattle’s visible poverty. “You can’t miss it unless you don’t eve ...
9 Aug 2016 - Megan Wildhood
'Evicted' author Matthew Desmond chronicles the struggle to obtain and keep stable housing The government has been telling people the economy is making a steady but slow recovery from the Great Recession. In the past few years, the unemployment ...
7 Jul 2016 - Wayne Braverman
The photographic journey of Matt Black Like many professional photographers, Matt Black reached the point where he set aside the trusty film on which he’d built an award-winning reputation and embraced the digital world. That was 2012. One of his first st ...
17 Dec 2015 - Joanne Zuhl