Most Read This Week In Poverty

[close] The Institute for Working Families recognizes that when Hoosiers are financially stable, they can achieve their full potential and better contribute to their communities. Policy plays an important role in building families' economic well-being. In order to do this we have to do a LOT of reading. This group is to connect with our followers and supporters and allow them to see what we are reading and connect with us about those books.

[close] I'm very interested in learning about education in the US. I've been reading about charter schools, school reform, Montessori schools, local and national standards, issues of teacher unions and tenure, alternate-certification methods for teachers, issues of race and culture in schooling, issues of poverty in schooling, etc. I'm hoping to find others interested in some or all of these topics!

[close] The socio-economic changes North Korea has undergone over the last two decade have been almost entirely unreported. Indeed, by the beginning of 2017, mass starvation had long ceased, while more and better-assorted markets emerged throughout the country (and yet you’re still reading that ‘North Korea’s regime is starving its population’). Fewer people are punished for political crimes than in the past (but you still read that three generations of a family are sent to the gulag for the slightest political crime). The rising middle class has been transforming the rigid old political class system since marketization has enabled people from lower classes to build their own business, with some becoming rich and even more influential than many party and government officials from the privileged ‘core class,’ something prohibited two decades ago. Yet, you’re still told by the media that a North Korean’s fate is solely defined by the social ‘caste’ he belongs to and so on. Business people around the world have had no access to any news of positive progress, while any stories of ‘normal’ development are generally considered not to be newsworthy by the media. — How much will the strangulating economic embargo which was imposed later in 2017 reverse this progress and cause suffering to the North Korean people?

[close] This will be a place to read together and discuss books, both fiction and non-fiction, that deal mainly with poverty and income inequality as the theme.