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13 October 2010
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Creating Community Wealth – The Next Generation

Yesterday I spent an hour via video conference with 25 students from the Honors College at the University of Alabama...

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12 October 2010
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The politics of helping hungry kids

You’ve probably noticed that the media these past few days has been reinforcing the conventional wisdom with new polls and...

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24 September 2010
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Child Nutrition Reauthorization: The Perfect and the Good

This morning I re-read the last chapter of Jonathan Alter’s book The Promise, about Obama’s first year in office. I...

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21 September 2010
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Sounds of Silence Greet Shocking New Poverty Statistics

Here’s a philosophical variation of the “if a tree falls in a forest” question for you: if 44 million Americans...

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10 September 2010
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A Layer of Vulnerability That is Almost Irrevocable

I had coffee yesterday with George Jones, the executive director of Bread For the City (to which Share Our Strength last year made...

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08 September 2010
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Our fragile and interdependent political ecosystem

One advantage of spending part of the summer in Maine is that you not only learn but actually live the...

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07 September 2010
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“It is the Giant Hour”

“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us...

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31 August 2010
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A Time of Growth for Community Wealth Ventures

 Community Wealth Ventures, a subsidiary of Share Our Strength, devoted to helping nonprofits and businesses create community wealth, is poised...

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30 August 2010
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Bearing witness to children living with an unemployed parent

The National Center for Children in Poverty is a think tank at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia...