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America’s New “Separate and Unequal” Societies
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 4:55pm | Type: Press

September 20, 2012 Sojo in the News William E. Alberts ...

Poverty in America —It's not what you think.
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 5:31pm | Type: Press

September 18, 2012 Sojo in the News Disciples News Service ...

U.S. denominations urge candidates to respond to poverty
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:27pm | Type: Press

September 14, 2012 Sojo in the News Anglican Journal ...

We Asked; They Answered: Obama, Romney on Poverty
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:44pm | Type: Press

September 13, 2012 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

US church leaders invite presidential candidates to present policies on poverty
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:36pm | Type: Press

September 13, 2012 Sojo in the News Independent Catholic News ...

Churches have ‘prophetic duty’ to challenge poverty
Originally Posted: 01/09/2013 - 4:56pm | Type: Press

August 31, 2012 Sojo in the News Christian Today ...

Poverty Rate Unchanged, But Still Historically High
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:50pm | Type: Press

September 12, 2012 Sojo in the News Pam Fessler ...

Obama, Romney Address Poverty in New Videos
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:36pm | Type: Press

September 13, 2012 Sojo in the News Napp Nazworth ...

Churches Call For Action On Poverty
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:34pm | Type: Press

September 13, 2012 Sojo in the News Jeanie Groh ...

Romney's strange poverty-reduction 'plan'
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:50pm | Type: Press

September 12, 2012 Sojo in the News Blake Zeff ...

What the presidential candidates say about poverty; Obama, Romney respond to Circle of Protection invitation
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:33pm | Type: Press

September 13, 2012 Sojo in the News National Council Of Churches ...

Obama, Romney Respond to New Poverty Data
Originally Posted: 01/10/2013 - 3:49pm | Type: Press

September 12, 2012 Sojo in the News Elizabeth Dias ...

We Asked; They Answered: Obama, Romney on Poverty
Originally Posted: 09/13/2012 - 12:29pm | Type: Blog

families out of poverty. In 2011, Social Security kept 21.4 million people out of poverty, including 14 ...

Poverty Rate Remains at Record Levels
Originally Posted: 10/01/2012 - 1:53pm | Type: Blog

2011 poverty report shows rate remains at 15 percent. The U.S. Census Bureau released its 2011 poverty report this morning, reporting that 46.2 million people were living in p ...

Awful Leads to Wonderful
Originally Posted: 09/11/2012 - 9:04am | Type: Blog

How was your last year? Wherever it fell in the 7-year farming cycle, please remember that your work is a seed in fallow ground that is bringing life to all people, regardless of color, nationality, socio-econ ...

Hungry in America
Originally Posted: 09/07/2012 - 2:00pm | Type: Blog

number people in the U.S. going hungry. 17.9 million households (14.9 percent of households) were  “food ...

Willing to Work, Where Are the Jobs?
Originally Posted: 09/07/2012 - 11:13am | Type: Blog

percent), whites (7.2 percent), blacks (14.1 percent), and Hispanics (10.2 percent) showed little ...

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Originally Posted: 09/07/2012 - 9:49am | Type: Product

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Originally Posted: 09/07/2012 - 9:49am | Type: Product

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Who Is My Neighbor? (Study Guide)
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A Vision for Overcoming Poverty (PDF Discussion Guide)
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Christians and Trade Justice (PDF Discussion Guide)
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Christians and Poverty (PDF Discussion Guide)
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Faith and Finance: Christians and the Economic Crisis (PDF Discussion Guide)
Originally Posted: 03/19/2013 - 2:39pm | Type: Product

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Originally Posted: 04/01/2013 - 2:14pm | Type: Product

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Originally Posted: 04/01/2013 - 2:05pm | Type: Product

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Originally Posted: 02/28/2013 - 3:22pm | Type: Product

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Originally Posted: 04/01/2013 - 2:14pm | Type: Product

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A Hamster Is Missing
Originally Posted: 02/28/2013 - 9:28am | Type: Product

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'Nun on the Bus' and the DNC
Originally Posted: 09/07/2012 - 3:05am | Type: Blog

Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWERK, a Catholic social justice group, shares her perspective on the financial challenges facing the nation — and the conversation we should be having. ...

Watch 'The Line': The Most Important Film You'll See This Year
Originally Posted: 09/06/2012 - 2:27pm | Type: Blog

Matthew 25 doesn’t say, “As you have done to the middle class you have done to me." What it records Jesus saying is, “As you have done to the least of these, you have done to me.” ...

A Revolutionary Picture
Originally Posted: 09/06/2012 - 12:21pm | Type: Blog

thing   that helped him hit .301 with 14 home runs in 121 games during the season. He hit .396 over ...

Education and the Wealth Gap
Originally Posted: 08/30/2012 - 4:34pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jan Resseger Julie Polter An advocate for public education argues that trying to make ...

Test Anxiety
Originally Posted: 08/14/2012 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jan Resseger How the out-of-control emphasis on high-stakes testing jeopardizes school reform. THE SO-CALLED ...

Beyond 'Superman'
Originally Posted: 08/14/2012 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Nicole Baker Fulgham Four traits of successful public school reform. I'VE BEEN INVOLVED in public educat ...

What Can Churches Do?
Originally Posted: 08/14/2012 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Romal Tune Faith for Change seeks to support public education—without crossing the church-state divide. JUST ...

'We Have a Long Way to Go'
Originally Posted: 09/04/2012 - 1:02pm | Type: Magazine Article

Elaina Ramsey Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol, author of Fire in the Ashes, talks about ...

The Sound of Learning
Originally Posted: 08/28/2012 - 11:22am | Type: Blog

The dangers that swirl around her come from gender stereotypes that threaten to curb her scientific interests. I worry that she will internalize the myth that boys are good in math and science and girls are n ...

James and the Giant Book
Originally Posted: 08/27/2012 - 11:05am | Type: Blog

In Roald Dahl's classic children's book James and the Giant Peach, 7-year-old orphan James Henry Trotter escapes his two rotten, abusive aunts by crawling into a giant peach. The peach rolls, floats, ...

Teachers Are Builders
Originally Posted: 08/24/2012 - 10:45am | Type: Blog

When the temptation to think kids like James just can't learn tears us down, I'm going to tell the story about the time he jumped up with a raised fist and shouted, "I did it!" when he read ...

SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 4: Piatt FAIL
Originally Posted: 08/23/2012 - 4:35pm | Type: Blog

I don’t mind failing as much as I do admitting I’ve failed. And technically, we haven’t blown the SNAP Challenge just yet, but I know for a fact we will by the end of the week. I ...

SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 3: Slip-Ups
Originally Posted: 08/23/2012 - 9:23am | Type: Blog

Maybe the serpent in the Garden of Eden story actually was a cute little girl in pigtails. Sure would have been more persuasive than some stupid talking snake. “We should go to a ...

It's Hard for a Rich People to Enter God's Kingdom
Originally Posted: 08/23/2012 - 12:31pm | Type: Blog

No choice can really be made outside that second bit of the Greatest Commandment. And that's uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable. It would be so much easier if my choices were just between me and Jes ...

Five Examples of Civil Disobedience to Remember
Originally Posted: 08/22/2012 - 4:12pm | Type: Blog

Five examples of civil disobedience to remember Ever since the global financial cabal drove the world's economies into a ditch, popular movements have been rising up to fight ...