Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America

George Bush's Redemption

Read Fr. Larry Snyder's interview on Busted Halo, exerpt below

The clock may be ticking on the Bush White House, but a group of religious leaders claims it’s not too late for George W. Bush to redeem what they call his ‘shameful’ legacy. Last month, the leader of Catholic Charities USA, the Reverend Larry Snyder, joined other Catholic and evangelical Christian social justice advocates in urging the President to right the wrongs of his administration. Catholic Charities USA, is the national membership association of more than 1,500 Catholic agencies and institutions that serve approximately 7.5 million people a year. Fr. Snyder oversees the organization’s Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America, a multi-year, multi-faceted initiative that aims to cut poverty in half by 2020. BustedHalo.com® recently spoke with Father Snyder about the changes he’d like to see, the challenges for the country’s next president and his hope for young Americans. Read it here

Nobody in the U.S. can afford to ignore poverty- by Michael Ford, executive director of Catholic Community Services of Northern Nevada

By Michael Ford

It's easy to ignore poverty when we think of it as something that just happens to "poor people."

As hard-working Americans, we believe that the poor need only get a job in order to turn their lives around.

The fact is, nearly two out of three families with incomes below the poverty level include at least one person who does have a job. A low-paying job, that is.

About a quarter of the full-time jobs in the United States pay less than two-thirds of national median earnings. Low-income earners may work longer hours or more than one job but still struggle to put food on the table, keep a roof over their heads or maintain health insurance. And the more hours worked, the less likely they are to acquire the training and skills necessary to move into higher paying jobs and out of poverty. Continue Reading

40 Days 40 Ways

This Lent season, find forty different ways you can do each day to help reduce poverty in America. Click on each image to learn more about it.

EITC Webinar

January 31st CCUSA held a webinar on the Earned Income Tax Credit
The powerpoint from that webinar is below. We apologize that the audio did not record.
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