Only growing worse. . .

The video that follows promotes the work of a few of our partners.  CitySquare and many other organizations could have been listed. 

The message is true. 

The challenges grow more difficult every day.

It is past time to begin investing in the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors. 

How do we awaken the nation to this unsustainable reality?

Chance and grace

Nicholas Kristof asks "where is the love" in his recent opinion piece in The New York Times.  He raises a needed challenge to us all as 2013 runs its tough course:

John Rawls, the brilliant 20th-century philosopher, argued for a society that seems fair if we consider it from behind a “veil of ignorance” — meaning we don’t know whether we’ll be born to an investment banker or a teenage mom, in a leafy suburb or a gang-ridden inner city, healthy or disabled, smart or struggling, privileged or disadvantaged. That’s a shrewd analytical tool — and who among us would argue for food stamp cuts if we thought we might be among the hungry children?

 

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, let’s remember that the difference between being surrounded by a loving family or being homeless on the street is determined not just by our own level of virtue or self-discipline, but also by an inextricable mix of luck, biography, brain chemistry and genetics.

 

For those who are well-off, it may be easier to castigate the irresponsibility of the poor than to recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower, but also of random chance and early upbringing.

 

Invest your time wisely, read on here!

The daily play for hope. . .

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy