Blacks and Whites alike entrapped by the ‘Gatsby Curve’
In July, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a particularly insightful commentary by Dr. Carlisle Ford Runge. In his essay “Black...
Subsidized artists’ housing aggravates metro segregation
This past May, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity (IMO) published a new study titled The...
Most Americans live dangerously close to poverty
A recent survey conducted by the New York-based consumer financial services company Bankrate.com reveals that 66 million Americans have put...
A little more food could mean much better health for the poor
In one of the earliest “Anti-Poverty Soldier” columns, I explored the disturbing issue of hunger both in Minnesota and throughout...
Recent studies reveal harmful effects of child poverty
Recently I came across a couple of stories that addressed the misconceptions many of us have regarding the subject...
Even with Social Security, many seniors still struggle to make ends meet
A recurring theme in The Anti-Poverty Soldier columns has been the idea of economic security. Although there are an estimated...
Despite Enterprise Zones and other such projects, Twin Cities poverty keeps growing
Beginning in 1994, the United States Congress established a process to designate a number of urban and rural areas as...
Philanthropy, social change, and the tolerance of poverty
In the wake of Prince’s tragic and untimely death, several of his more recent associates have disclosed details regarding the...
Yet another Minnesota first place in racial gaps
In fact today, of the 60 cities in the metro area with a population of at least 10,000, St. Paul...
The minimum and/or real wage blues
A number of cities across America either have or are in the process of developing a $15 minimum wage in...
Social Security has kept millions of Americans out of poverty
There is an early episode of the 1970s sitcom Good Times titled “The Dinner Party” where the Evans family suspects...
Minnesota prospers, yet food insecurity continues to rise
In February, Hunger Solutions Minnesota released its latest report detailing that collectively Minnesotans made nearly 3.3 million visits to food...
Is poverty violence?
On October 17, 1987, just months before his death, Father Joseph Wresinski stood before an audience of more than 100,000...
It’s easy to ignore those at the ‘bottom of the well’
It was American author and historian James Truslow Adams that famously popularized the phrase “The American Dream” in his 1931...
Wealth and income inequalities just keep getting worse
Among the most talked about issues related to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 have been the ever-increasing gaps in income...
Relieving the burden of health care
For a good part of the last two decades, the issue of healthcare reform has either been at or near...
Prosperity for the few, hard times for the rest of us
In the nearly two years that I have had the privilege of contributing this column to the MSR, a number...
The ghost of separate and unequal education continues to haunt us
Not long ago I came across an opinion piece by the editorial board of ECM, a local company that publishes...
Welfare reform has pushed millions deeper into poverty
Toward the end of 2002’s provocative Bowling for Columbine, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore highlighted a tragic story from his hometown...
Should only those able to pay have decent health care?
In January of 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his penultimate State of the Union Address before the United States...
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