Tag: poverty
Feeling Relatively Poor Increases Support For Women In The Workplace
"Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions," by Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University…
How To Be Poor In Spirit Despite How Much Money You Have
Poor: In pocket or in spirit? Which are you or are you both? That is a question I asked myself some years ago. And the…
Basic Income: A No-Brainer In Economic Hard Times
Basic income: A no-brainer in economic hard times by Catherine L. Mah Ontario’s minister of children, community and social services just announced that the Canadian…
How Money Is Destroying The World
How Money Is Destroying The World by Mike Sosteric In a widely cited confessional in the New York Times in 2014, former Wall Street trader…
Begging: An Art, A National Pastime Or A Nasty Habit? Last Resort?
Begging - an activity that is abhorrent to me. What exactly classifies as begging? According to the Oxford dictionary, to beg is to: ask (someone)…
Why We Serve – Beverly Sukie-Martin
I am here to let you know why I serve and it takes me back to growing up in rural Jamaica, in Clarendon where I…
Why We Serve – Claudette Esterine-Campbell
My mother did odd jobs after her small hairdressing business crashed. We constantly moved house, hiding from landlords who she owed rent, bill collectors and…