Katrina's Blueprint for Ending Poverty

“Katrina’s Blueprint for Ending Poverty” by Lance Hill (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)

June 1, 2006 by

By Lance Hill (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) There is an old saying, “When you stumble, dig for gold.” When we encounter adversity, we seldom have the presence of mind to learn from it, although we generally learn more in life from our mistakes than from our successes. Hurricane Katrina was a monumental stumble that nearly landed us into an abyss. It scattered … [Read more...] about “Katrina’s Blueprint for Ending Poverty” by Lance Hill (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)

Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later

June 1, 2006 by

"Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement" by James Ralph "National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals" from the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights "Katrina's Blueprint for Ending Poverty" by Lance Hill "Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement" by Mary Lou Finley "The … [Read more...] about Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More

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