More than 46 million Americans live in Poverty USA.
PovertyUSA is the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops. An initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), PovertyUSA seeks to educate and promote understanding about poverty and its root causes.
Poverty Resources
Poverty USA Tour
What's life like at the poverty line? It's one impossible choice after another—between food and medicine, getting ...
Snapshots of Poverty
What can someone's personal items tell you about them? A lot, when it comes to the ...
Poverty Facts
The Population of Poverty USA In 2014, 47 million people lived in Poverty USA. That means the ...Stories of Hope
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children
As painful as it is to picture a child arrested for habitual truancy, it is devastating ...
Illinois People’s Action
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process of injecting sand, water, and chemicals at a high pressure ...
The Catholic Multicultural Center
Environmental stewardship is a core value of the Catholic Multicultural Center (CMC) in Madison, Wisconsin. The ...
United Workers Association
United Workers, composed of low-wage workers, organizes to promote human rights and fair development in Baltimore ...
Somos Un Pueblo Unido
People need cars to get to work and school, but they can’t operate a motor vehicle ...
BOLD Justice
In five short years, clergy from twenty interfaith, interracial congregations in southeast Florida have come together ...
People Engaged in Active Community Efforts (PEACE)
Youth crime, wage theft, unemployment... Palm Beach, Florida, has many of the same problems as any ...
Holy Rosary Credit Union
“It’s the look on someone’s face when they finally have a car to get to work, ...
New Mexico Acequia Association
For more than 400 years, family farmers and ranchers in arid New Mexico have relied on ...
A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy
A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy (AMOS) is an ecumenical community organization focused on identifying and rectifying social ...
Omaha Together One Community
Omaha Together One Community (OTOC) is a multi-ethnic, ecumenical organization committed to promoting a safe, healthy ...
Taxi Workers’ Alliance of Pennsylvania
Cab drivers in Philadelphia look like the United Nations on wheels. They hail from six continents ...
Latino Union of Chicago
New immigrants, grateful for work, are easy prey for unscrupulous employers. People seeking to support their ...
