poverty

Poverty

NETWORK is committed to work on federal legislation designed to alleviate poverty and its effects. Each fall, when the U.S. Census Bureau releases its Poverty Report, based on statistics from the previous year, we are reminded that disparities between those with the greatest wealth in this nation and all others continues to grow.

It is expected that when official 2009 and 2010 poverty rates come out, they will be higher than the 2008 rate (13.2%).

Poverty, Income Security and the Safety Net

What have we learned from the recent economic downturn?

What have we learned from the recent economic downturn?

The economic meltdown created an extremely fluid landscape. It is difficult to predict accurately how all of this will “shake out,” but we do believe that the economy will continue to be at the center of much of the movement in this session of Congress – especially regarding financial regulation and jobs.

In a healthy economy, enough money moves through the hands of enough people so that most can buy the necessities of life. In a meltdown, the money flow stops: you can’t buy groceries because I can’t pay your wages because the person who bought my products can’t pay me.

Catholic Social Justice Lobby Thanks Pope Benedict XVI for His Strong Statement About Economic Justice

NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, welcomes the pope’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, which emphasizes the importance of many of NETWORK’s priority issues, including our work for effective ways to address poverty and hunger, justice for immigrants, ecological justice, fair trade, and development. Read more