Taking Action to End Poverty

July-August 2008 Issue of Clearinghouse Review Now Available Online

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Step Forward

A New Way to Look At Progress
By John Bouman, President

Nine years ago, Chicagoan Mark Emerson left his job with a large company that offered group health coverage to pursue the American dream and start his own business.

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The State of Poverty

  • Number of children: 12.9 million
    ...four times the number of all the children in Illinois
  • Number of seniors 65 and over: 3.6 million
    ...the same as the entire population of Oklahoma
  • Number of women: 14.6 million
    ...the entire population of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa combined
  • Number reporting a disability: 8.0 million
    ...a population larger than the State of Massachusetts
  • Number of homeless: 3.5 million
    ...twice the population of Nebraska
 

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