Ten Taylor Allderdice students who live in Hazelwood have filmed a documentary about food scarcity in their community. “Not Finished Yet,” funded by the Heinz Endowments and overseen by Hazelwood’s Center of Life, will […]
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Journalist Sasha Abramsky to speak on poverty issues
For Americans working minimum wage jobs today, the world is conspiring against success and in some cases, even survival, according to journalist and poverty expert Sasha Abramsky. After decades of […]
Lack of grocery not sole obesity cause, report says
A lack of full-service grocery stores in low-income areas often is blamed for high obesity rates, but prices and store layouts might play a bigger role, according to a report […]
Unregistered Voters: The federal government requires the state to ask social-service clients if they want to register to vote; so how come so many are left out in the cold?
Paul O’Hanlon calls it his “A-ha!” moment. It came around 2002, just as he was starting work as a voting-rights lawyer and learning about the National Voter Registration Act, a […]
‘Poverty simulation’ helps drive home the reality
As part of Circles East Liberty, Eastminster Church hosted an exercise to demonstrate the daily grind of poverty. For one intensely compressed month, Christine Smith tried to live as “Robert […]
Report: Pennsylvania’s adult obesity rate fluctuates slightly to 30 percent
Shortly after Karen Hacker took on the job of director of the Allegheny County Health Department, she launched Live Well Allegheny, an initiative to try to improve the health of […]
Poverty simulations to recruit allies
In partnership with Just Harvest – a Pittsburgh organization that fights social injustice – East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI), Open Hand Ministries, Repair the World, and the East End Cooperative […]
Just Harvest wins national farmers market poster contest
Just Harvest won first place in the Farmers Market Coalition’s first-ever nationwide farmers market poster contest, beating out more than 160 entries for a prize of $1,000….
Pittsburgh-area farmers markets grow
When Maria Almone, 92, of Brookline, found out that strawberries from Jodikino’s Farm in Clinton were $5 a quart at the Carrick farmers market, she said something she wouldn’t say […]
Just Harvest poster is a winner
Pittsburgh Just Harvest is one of the winners in a poster contest run by the Farmers Market Coalition, a nonprofit “dedicated to strengthening farmers markets for the benefit of farmers, […]
