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By Guest commentary / Friday, April 24th, 2020 / Education, Latest news, Op/Eds / Comments Off on Damooei: Poverty is a lethal human-made disease
By Jamshid Damooei What makes us human is an important question, and the answer is not always clear. If life is a microcosm of our natural world, what place does our way of life hold and where does economics appear on the scene? I have been wrestling with this question for a big part of Read More →
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By Guest commentary / Friday, February 22nd, 2019 / Latest news, Nonprofits, Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Harrison: United Way targets poverty, homelessness
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By Guest commentary / Friday, October 5th, 2018 / Education, Latest news, Nonprofits, Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Head Start students gain path out of poverty
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By Guest commentary / Friday, June 20th, 2014 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: The nexus of poverty, education and economic development
Persistent poverty can only be addressed by building a system that allows for economic mobility.
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By Guest commentary / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: Congress whiffs on reform of exploding food-stamp program
This once-modest program, originally set up to provide temporary assistance to the truly poor, has morphed into a massive runaway entitlement program that is grossly mismanaged, rife with fraud and badly in need of reform.
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