Connection

Our award-winning quarterly publication, the Connection, provides in-depth analysis of important social justice issues, along with examples of people who are making a difference. You can find copies of past issues on our archives page.

Our current issue (pictured to the right) contains our new report on how people in poverty have been affected by the recession and high unemployment. Based on surveys conducted at emergency facilities across the country, the report, entitled TANF Tested: Lives of People in Poverty during the Recession, tells the real-life stories of people who struggle to put food on their tables and find jobs. Despite the fact that many are eligible for government program assistance, large numbers of families in poverty are unable to get what they need.

From February to March 2010, NETWORK surveyed people at 70 emergency service agencies where they sought help, including food pantries and homeless shelters. Adult members of more than 800 families that included 1300 children were personally interviewed. Our new report based on our findings provides information about their day-to-day lives and the struggles they face.

Commenting on the report, Rev. Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA, said, “This report accurately paints a picture of the reality of far too many people who live in the throes of poverty in this country. As we approach the debate about the reauthorization of TANF, this report gives us not only a foundational context of the experience of poverty, it gives credible strategies for social change.”

Past issues of the Connection can be viewed here.

 

The InterConnection, inaugurated in 2010, is sent to our readers between Connection issues. Past issues can be viewed here. 

 

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