The Los Angeles Times is largely a shell of its former self, part of an overall downturn in the quantity and quality of newspapers. However, the paper is developing quite a niche in reporting on homelessness (which I guess makes sense because Los Angeles is home to more homeless persons than any other city in [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Humanizing homelessness
Posted in Homelessness, Los Angeles, Poverty, tagged Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, media, Nathaniel Ayers, Poverty on June 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services; Accessing Services Is a Challenge
Posted in General, Health, tagged Ex Offenders, Prison on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Lois Davis, RAND Corporation As California continues to release more prisoners, most will return to California communities, bringing with them a host of health and social needs. This raises key public health challenges, especially because ex-prisoners are returning to communities whose safety nets have already been severely strained. The RAND Corporation has just released [...]
Trends in LA and CA over the next few years
Posted in Data, Economy, Employment, Health, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Poverty, Working poor, tagged Economy, Employment, Homelessness, Poverty on June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A common problem in trying to discern trends in poverty and inequality is that the data that we often have at hand are usually not particularly recent. The lag between when data are collected and publicly available can be significant, especially in a rapidly changing economy like we’ve been in over last several months. Also, [...]
Giving was down in 2008; Human service organizations hit hard
Posted in General, tagged Charitable giving, Giving USA, Philanthropy on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that according to Giving USA’s report findings released today, charitable donations fell by nearly 6% in 2008, the sharpest drop in 53 years. Americans gave over $300 billion to nonprofit organizations in 2008, amounting to about 2% of the gross domestic product. As the article points out, the decline from the [...]
The high cost of poverty
Posted in Poverty, Working poor, tagged Economy, Poverty on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post ran an article by DeNeen Brown last month that began with the seemingly contradictory statement, “you have to be rich to be poor.” How can that be? As the article explains, the poor often pay higher prices for goods and services in their neighborhoods, and, perhaps more importantly, they pay much more [...]
