Our Neighbors On The Streets: A Social Justice Perspective

Is The Obamacare Glass Half Empty Or Half Full? (from the National Alliance to End Homelessness) 10th July 2012 written by Lisa Stand What does the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act mean for communities poised to use new Medicaid funding to bolster their homeless assistance? First and foremost, communities have to engage more intensively with the state policymaking process – this, actually, was true before the ACA ruling came down. And it will be true no matter what the results of elections in November. Since the decision, we now know that Medicaid will  not expand nationally  to cover virtually all uninsured people who earn less than $15,000. Therefore, the presumption no longer holds that virtually all people experiencing chronic homelessness will be able to enroll in Medicaid beginning in 2014. But states  do  have the  option  to expand in 2014, taking advantage of substantial federal Medicaid subsidies to do so. T...

Poverty in the 50 years since ‘The Other America,’ in five charts Posted by Dylan Matthews on July 11, 2012 at  9:48 am (Washington Post)     Text Size Print Reprints Share: More » Fifty years ago, the democratic socialist activist and writer Michael Harrington published The Other America , which chronicled the state of the American poor at that time. The book shed light on what was at the time an especially marginalized population, easily ignored by middle and upper-class Americans who didn’t venture into the urban ghettos and rural communities where most of the poor lived. Most notably, the book, in part due to a  review  of it by the social critic Dwight MacDonald in  The New Yorker , helped convinced the Johnson administration to launch the war on poverty. The 50th anniversary is prompting a fair amount of useful reflection on poverty reduction efforts since the book’s publication, notably at  a conference...

Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading Enable Social Reading i Maria Foscarinis Founder and executive director, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty GET UPDATES FROM MARIA FOSCARINIS   Like 53 Attack Homelessness, Not Homeless People Posted: 07/03/2012 3:37 pm React Inspiring Motivating Moving Scary Outrageous Amazing Innovative Helpful Follow Foreclosure Crisis  ,  Foreclosure Crisis  ,  Homelessness  ,  Homelessness  ,  Unemployment  , US Poverty  ,  Affordable Housing  ,  Criminalization  ,  Impact News SHARE THIS STORY 71 27 2 Submit this story As unemployment and foreclosures continue to drive record increases  in homelessness, many cities are stepping up efforts to criminalize it. That's wrong, ineffective and costly. But some communities are...