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Profile of those Living in Poor Areas Changing

A new report by the Brookings Institute examines the profile of those living in extremely poor areas. The authors of the report define extreme poverty areas as neighborhoods with poverty rates greater...

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Supplemental Poverty Measure Offers Valuable Insight for Poverty Advocates

People love ratings. You can find a top ten list for just about anything. Of course, part of why we love ratings is because there is a degree of arbitrariness in almost any ranking algorithm, leaving...

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Is Building Affordable Housing Always the Answer to Homelessness?

Pittsburgh has no lack of affordable housing In my heart, I’m a Californian, but for the last year and a half I’ve been living in Pittsburgh attending graduate school. I grew up in the San Francisco...

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Does Blogging Matter in the Social Sector?

Professionally I do two things; I help organizations make high impact data-oriented decisions, and I write. As 2011 draws to a close, I reflect on another year helping a lot of great organizations...

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Evidence that Blogging Does Matter

Last Friday I wrote a post questioning whether blogging, particularly my own writing, has any value in the social sector. I received a lot of great comments and examples of blogging leading to actual...

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Weighing Racial Inequality and Poverty

Yesterday the country celebrated Martin Luther King Day. While Dr. King is well known for his efforts to combat racial inequality, his focus on poverty is less known, largely on account of his untimely...

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Welfare Expenditures at Strip Clubs Underscore Rationality of the Poor

A new bill being floated in the US House of Representatives aims to abolish a loop-hole that allows cash-aid welfare recipients to use welfare benefits at strip clubs and casinos. As reported by...

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Thank You Poverty Insights Readers

The saying goes that all good things must come to an end. As poverty advocates, our hope is that the famous adage is equally true of social injustices like homelessness, hunger, and all forms of human...

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The Intersection of Public Policy and the Social Sector

I took a trip to Washington DC last week and had the opportunity to meet with Kathryn Baer, the author of the excellent Poverty and Policy blog. Kathryn’s focus is on, as the title of her site...

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Lowering Standards is the Wrong way to Increase Outcomes

Measurements are often given meaning relative to thresholds. Someone is housed or unhoused, poor or not poor, by some definition. Yet these thresholds are arbitrary, and open to debate and...

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