By: Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat

Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:19:55 +0000

Bruce –

Thank you for your comment. I don’t disagree with anything you said. Certainly, there have been tremendous successes along the way. And yes, poverty today looks very different from poverty 50 years ago, but it doesn’t mean that living in poverty is any easier or that we should be complacent in our efforts. In fact, I believe that because poverty is not as poignantly visible as it was then, we actually have a harder time telling the story and making the case for continued investments, particularly in a region such as ours where we are home to some of the wealthiest and most highly educated men and women and have one of the widest wealth gaps in the country. As you said, the struggle continues, and we have to redouble our efforts to ameliorate and obliterate the causes of poverty today.

Thanks again for taking the time to read the blog and sharing your perspective!

Jennifer