Women, children and poverty. Women and children equal poverty. A child raised by his mother alone is four times as likely to be poor as a child with both parents at home. In fact, more than half the children in female-headed families are poor. The
Chicago, America’s third largest city, is a case study in urban poverty. Chicago contains ten of the nation’s sixteen poorest neighborhoods, according to Roosevelt University urbanologist Pierre DeVise. One half of all children in the city are poor. The past two years have seen a
“It’s pure hell, I’ll tell you.”–Dave Dumont The Dumont family of Wellman, Iowa, is fighting to keep their farm. Jason (14) and Rodney (12) help their father. Linda drove out to the fields to bring her husband, Dave, the latest news from the banker. Dave
California is the homeless capital of America. Ventura County–an affluent, suburban area, next to Los Angeles County–has between three and five thousand homeless. According to a survey by the Ventura County Coalition for the Homeless, one-third of the homeless are children under age 13. 17%
It was a homecoming, of sorts, for Mabel Searles. As a teenager in the 1940s, she had lived for several years in Richard Allen Homes, the sprawling public housing project in North Philadelphia. The new garden-apartment development was considered a showplace in those days, a
