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Anniversary of Poverty Speech Renews Battle Over Helping the Poor
December 08, 2013 | The Chronicle of Philanthropy | Link to article
Avi Poster, co-founder of a new grass-roots antipoverty coalition in Nashville, sees next year as an ideal time to get policy makers thinking more about how to help the millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet.
The country will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, and that should offer a reminder, he says, that "in a country as rich and plentiful as this, those who 'have' have a moral obligation to help those who don't."
"The War on Poverty had periods of great success, and they were defined by public will," says Mr. Poster, whose coalition, A Voice, plans to work with the mayor's office to commemorate the anniversary in Nashville. "If there's public will, there's no reason we can't continue to have success."
Mr. Poster joins a variety of other nonprofit leaders and policy makers who plan to use the anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's declaration of an "unconditional war on poverty in America"-made in a State of the Union address on January 8, 1964-to shape the debate about how the country should help its most vulnerable citizens, especially at a time of growing income inequality.
Supporters of President Johnson's legacy want to highlight its accomplishments, while critics say the effort failed and it's time to move in a different direction.
Planned activities include:
- Half in Ten-a campaign that gets its name from its goal to cut poverty in half within 10 years, or by 2020-is sponsoring a "50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty Storyteller Contest," seeking stories from people who have benefited from a social safety-net program. The winner, who will be announced December 16, will meet with Rep. Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, who will read the story on the House floor.
- The Russell Sage Foundation has scheduled an event next month to discuss a book that its president, Sheldon Danziger, co-edited: Legacies of the War on Poverty, a compilation of studies by poverty scholars.
- Robert Woodson Sr., president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which provides training and other aid to nonprofits that help low-income people, is trying to raise money to unite 40 to 50 grass-roots leaders at a national symposium next year to assess the War on Poverty's legacy. Mr. Woodson, a critic of the effort's "big government" approach, says he wants to explore ways to help low-income people become self-sufficient and "agents of their own transformation."
The topic of poverty has been pushed to the back burner politically in recent years as lawmakers in Washington and many state capitals have been preoccupied with bitter battles over how to close government budget deficits, as Republicans, especially those affiliated with the small-government Tea Party, have pushed for deep spending cuts and Democrats generally have advocated higher taxes on the wealthy.
President Johnson's entreaty ushered in an enormous amount of new spending on programs to help low-income people, including many that are still operating 50 years later: Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, the Job Corps, food stamps, school aid, student loans, community health centers, legal services, and more.
Nonprofits manage or receive payments from most of those programs. But today, thanks partly to the Great Recession, the poverty rate has stood at roughly 15 percent for the past three years-below the rates that were seen before the War on Poverty but up from the low of 11.1 percent in 1973.
"Today 46 million people live in poverty and 20 million Americans live on less than half of the poverty level," Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, said when opening a hearing on poverty in July. "The fact is, we're losing the War on Poverty, and we need to know why."
Mr. Ryan plans to draft his own anti-poverty plan next year to coincide with the 50th anniversary. But some antipoverty activists are trying to counter the Wisconsin congressman's argument.
"That poverty remains higher than any of us would want should not be a reason to denigrate the efforts that are working," says Sharon Parrott, vice president for budget policy and economic opportunity at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal economic think tank.
The center has issued a series of studies arguing that the official poverty rate, which is based on income, doesn't take into account the help that low-income people get from noncash benefits like food stamps, rent subsidies, and tax credits.
Telling Stories
Half in Ten says it is sponsoring its storytelling contest as a way to "convey the successes of War on Poverty and other assistance programs" so it can "reset" the debate over poverty.
"We're trying to provide a platform for low-income people themselves to speak directly to policy makers, directly to the public, about the ways these investments have impacted their lives," says Melissa Boteach, director of the campaign.
Half in Ten is a project of the advocacy arm of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank; the Coalition on Human Needs, an alliance of social-service and other nonprofits; and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
Mobilizing the Poor
The Center for Community Change, which promotes grass-roots organizing, also wants the public to hear more from people who are suffering economically from public policies or corporate activities.
The center plans to start a campaign next year to cut poverty by 20 percent over 12 years. One of its key goals: to mobilize 1 million low-income people who are not now politically active to win policy changes at the state and local levels that could serve as models for national action.
"There needs to be a movement of low-income folks, just as the civil-rights movement drove the pressure put on [President John F.] Kennedy and Johnson in the '60s to address both civil rights and poverty," says Steven Savner, director of public policy. The campaign aims to make poverty a major issue in the 2016 presidential debates.
Greater Dependence
But critics of the War on Poverty will also be weighing in during the anniversary conversations.
Mr. Woodson of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which has developed a program to reduce violence in schools, says the approach of the last 50 years has fostered dependency among poor people, created a "poverty industrial complex," and weakened black families, for example, by compensating unmarried women when they have additional children.
Mr. Woodson says that for the last seven months he has been arranging for Rep. Ryan to meet once or twice a month with neighborhood leaders in cities across the country.
He says he wants Mr. Ryan to see that the country's values come from civic institutions and "solutions to the problems of poverty are not found in the halls of great universities; they're found among the people suffering the problem."
Mr. Ryan's spokesman said he was not available to for an interview about proposals he will include in his poverty plan. As a prominent House leader, he has advocated cutting safety-net programs like Medicaid as part of a broader effort to rein in the national debt and to require people who receive aid like food stamps and rental assistance to have jobs, seek work, or get job training.
Another Alternative
Other conservatives are also showing more interest in poverty.
At a recent conference, Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, urged people on the right to "declare peace on the safety net," calling aid to the truly indigent "one of the greatest achievements of our society."
However, he says the "central planks of the War on Poverty have been completely discredited" in leaving so many poor people dependent on government aid rather than moving them into the middle class. He says President Obama's policies have made things worse, for example, by overregulation that has hindered job creation and entrepreneurship. "There is literally only one thing that has expanded opportunities for the poor and that's the free-enterprise system," he says.
Mr. Brooks says AEI is stepping up its work on poverty. He himself is writing a book and plans to hire at least one or two new poverty scholars.
More Opportunities
One of the biggest coalitions working to give low-income people a leg up, Opportunity Nation, rarely uses the word "poverty" and prefers the word "opportunity."
Mark Edwards, executive director, says the decision came after a year of conversations with poor people. "Poverty is not a term they use to describe their own experience," he says.
The group, an alliance of 250 nonprofits, businesses, and other organizations that seeks bipartisan support for efforts to "expand economic opportunity" and "improve social mobility," has as its signature effort an annual "opportunity index" that rates states and counties in areas related to jobs, education, and civic life.
It recently endorsed a Senate bill introduced by two lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, that aims to make job-training programs more effective. But in a sign of the political times, the legislation calls for no new money. Instead, it would limit the awarding of federal money to programs that have shown superior results.
Many advocates agree that the fight against poverty today must be a different animal than the one President Johnson waged in the 1960s, because the economy has changed. It does not bounce back as quickly from recessions, wages have stagnated, unemployment is high, and far more women work.
"There will be a battle about the War on Poverty and what it achieved and did not achieve," says Jodie Levin-Epstein, deputy director of the Center for Law and Social Policy. "The bigger battle should be around solutions that address the poverty of today."


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Looking at Stan Douglas's new photographic work at the Power Plant, there's an easy temptation to glom on to the glossy surface of awkward nostalgia. In rich black-and-whites, the images come across at times as endearingly amateurish, and in others as blatant trickery. There's a pervasive sense of hackish experimentalism – a kid with a new toy, still working out the kinks.
This might seem odd, given Douglas's status as one of a select few artists from Vancouver — Rodney Graham and Jeff Wall being the most prominent among the others — who have become unofficial Canadian emissaries to the art world at large in the last couple of decades for their particular kind of precise, formally rigorous photographic and film works. Say "Canadian art" to anyone embedded in the broader currents of the international art world, and the first name on their lips is one of them, if not all three.
So to take Douglas's Midcentury Studio series at face value is to not look hard enough. (The Power Plant show, called Entertainment is an excerpt of the larger series.) Truth to tell, it's all those things — nostalgic, gawky, at times technically suspect or blatantly showy — but they're also the highly-deliberate product of Douglas's tightly-controlled intentions.
Midcentury Studio was spawned by Douglas's fascination with photography in the immediate post-war period as a semi-professional, make-it-up-as-you-go-along practice. "People were coming home from war, they needed a job, so they would buy a camera and say 'now I'm a photographer,'" says Douglas, 50, who is cheery, soft-spoken and thoughtful in the dimly-lit gallery space.
That amateur chutzpah, warts and all, became enthralling for Douglas, particularly given the stature of his Vancouver hometown as a photographic art world hotbed.
"I'm from a place where people always talk about photography as art," he says. "I started to become fascinated with its qualities that had made it not art for so long in so many people's eyes — the idea that things are beyond your control. That negotiation with randomness, chance, is what makes photography really interesting to me."
To fully engage the idea, Douglas had to insinuate himself within it. Midcentury Studio works on the premise that the pictures are by a nameless, fictional semi-professional hack working from 1945 to 1951, taking on jobs ranging from news photography to portraiture to sports. Anything for a buck, you might say, which was surely a phrase often on the lips of one of the main inspirations for the series, real-world Vancouver photographer Ray Munro.
Munro, a Canadian Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, stumbled his way to the west coast immediately after the war and helped start Artray Studios with Art Jones, in 1948. It was a kind of one-stop photo services shop, with Munro churning through job after job, making up for his lack of skill with the force of sheer bluster.
As Douglas started to sift through a significant archive in Vancouver, Munro's images came up time and again. "They were kind of crappy, but kind of interesting at the same time," Douglas said. He broadened his research to the Blackstar Photography Archive at Ryerson University, sifting some 6,000 pictures, and noticed this to be a broad phenomenon. Nonetheless, in time, he could see Munro — and photography in general — becoming more refined. "There was a lack of pictorial standards in photography around 1945, but then it becomes coalesced into a sort of LIFE magazine or (Henri) Cartier-Bresson genre by 1950," he says.
Douglas charts that technical evolution through the lens of a fictional photographer, loosely modeled after Munro. Douglas presents his roughest, earliest attempts in 1946 — a badly blown-out shot of a sideshow sword juggler, mercilessly enlarged to highlight the harshness of his flash — through to an evolved technical virtuosity in capturing the ghost images of a dancer in motion in 1951.
But to think Midcentury Studio is only about photography is to leave the bulk of Douglas's intentions on the cutting room floor. Douglas selects a pregnant moment in the evolution of contemporary society — that immediate postwar period, the world in ruins, waiting to be remade.
Douglas has always plied a learned fascination with the fraught legacies of modernity, and the loaded idealism of its products: housing projects, freeways, suburbs, and, of course, our current multi-cultural reality.
Douglas's images are packed with sly nods to a world churning with upheavals — global maps being redrawn, economic systems being reinvented, and millions of people running from cataclysmic pasts to uncertain futures — and social and racial tensions — on the other side of the world.
An arresting pair of images, positioned side-by-side, comes perhaps as close to overt as Douglas ever has: On the right is a gloriously serene cricket match, its players a mash-up of ethnicities from the far corners of the British empire, all white-garbed and refined as they play an arcane game against the looming backdrop of a west-coast rainforest. On the right is, a violently kinetic image of a fight breaking out in the stands of a hockey game, taken from above, as though dangling from the press box.
Anything for a buck, the photographer might say, but the juxtaposition of two cultures now sharing space in the re-ordered world casts light on Douglas's project as not just a photographic one, but one of a sometimes-rough social evolution — a rough and tumble frontier world, side-by-side with sudden, radical difference.
Nowhere is this more clear than in Malabar People, a suite of portraits by Douglas's hack now a practiced studio shooter. Inspired by a thesis written by Douglas's uncle, the sociologist Laurence Douglas, in the '50s, the pictures are of the fictional patrons and staff of a nightclub on the edge of Vancouver's Chinatown in 1951.
We can talk about the ethnic make-up of this group — blacks and Indians, Chinese, Irish, Italian and First Nations, all present in a rapidly-evolving, still nascent multi-cultural stew — as a signifier of the inequities suddenly made plain by the influx of immigrants in the immediate post-war period (the Malabar "was where you went if you weren't white," Douglas says, noting that Italians and Irish weren't defined as such until the 60s.)
Unlike Douglas's other images, which are oblique and suggestive of a shifting social order, the content of Malabar People is the top layer. It dares you to see the photographs themselves, and not the freight they carry, which is kind of a nice metaphor for Douglas's project in general. Does a savvy eye make the real more authentic, or less? Open a magazine; surf the web. You tell me.


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At PAX East, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said that the company isn't done with the Rock Band and Dance Central franchises, but that's not the only news coming out of the show from the company. The developer also announced a new auto-run game for mobile systems called Record Run.
Earlier today, Harmonix official twitter account announced the game,
Announced at PAX East, @RecordRun is a new rhythm-runner coming soon to mobile from Harmonix! Stay tuned.
— Harmonix (@Harmonix) April 11, 2014
Announced at PAX East, @RecordRun is a new rhythm-runner coming soon to mobile from Harmonix! Stay tuned.
It sounds like Record Run will take music already downloaded onto a players mobile device and then create an auto-run platforming level similar to Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip Runner series. Record Run will be a free-to-play title when it releases, but we don't have a date to pin to it just yet.
[Source: Twitter via Polygon]
Our TakeI've always enjoyed Harmonix products – even the company's previous iOS app, VidRhythm. Hopefully, the company will find some success with this new mobile game; the concept sounds solid enough.
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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) continues to defend oil subsidies and tax cuts for millionaires, while now threatening to cut Social Security and Medicare. Because "we're in a financial emergency," Brown told senior citizens at the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Brighton on Monday, existing programs for seniors are under the axe:
If anybody's telling you that 'Everything's OK, and don't worry about it, and you're going to get all your benefits, and everything's fine,' then they're not really telling you the truth.
This comes only a few months after Brown attacked Democrats for "scare tactics" over the debt ceiling fight. At the meeting, Brown was asked if he was willing to fight the "financial emergency" by asking oil companies and millionaires to make any financial sacrifice, instead of seniors. Brown said that would be "an absolute job killer":
"Would you be willing to support closing tax loopholes on big oil? …Would you be willing to raise revenue on the wealthiest 1 percent?"
Brown said he had voted to close some loopholes, such as a tax subsidy for ethanol. But he said he was not inclined to support any more taxes.
"We're in a 2 1/2- to 3-year recession right now, and raising taxes is an absolute job killer," he said.
That's right: asked about eliminating subsidies that benefit Big Oil, Brown touted his vote to end an ethanol subsidy. His vote helped Big Oil keep its stranglehold on the U.S. economy.
Brown's economic math isn't any better. The recession began in December 2007, over three years ago, and formally ended in June 2009, over two years ago. Even though the private sector has been adding jobs at a steady clip this year, unemployment remains high because of mass layoffs in the public sector. And those are the jobs paid for by taxes.
While senior citizens suffer, the super-wealthy and the corporations are paying record low taxes while making record high profits, thanks to tax cuts for the rich under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama. Brown is subsidizing his donor base, like the Tea Party billionaire Koch brothers, on the backs of America's hard-working middle class and vulnerable senior citizens. Maybe Brown is worried that it would be an "absolute job killer" or a "financial emergency" if he were to work for his constituents instead of his paymasters.


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This week Nida Mahmud caught up with Amer Hasan, an Imperial Alumnus and CEO of minicabit. He recently appeared on Dragons' Den and recieved offers from three out of the five Dragons. Furthermore, minicabit is the first app to win an offer on the show. Minicabit is an app and website that enables users to compare real time quotes from cab companies. The company operates in over 30 cities and wil be expanding to even more in 2014. Amer tells us more about minicabit and how you can win tickets to see Beyonce at The O2.
What is minicabit?
minicabit enables you to compare and book real-time quotes from licensed minicab operators in over 30 cities across the UK. Our technology helps you to book great cab deals for long distance and local trips via our website and smartphone app. We're backed by O2, the mobile operator.
Congratulations on your success on the Dragons' Den TV show. What was it actually like in the Den?
Thanks, the whole experience of getting 3 investment offers from the Dragons was a bit surreal. And it's great that minicabit's app is the first app to ever win offers in the Den! Pitching in the Den itself was pretty much like any other meeting with potential investors, except everyone was wearing TV makeup. The time in the Den was a lot longer than shown, where they certainly grilled me. But the negotiation was as tense as it appeared, as I had to carefully deal with each of the Dragons' offers.
Overall, it's a great thumbs up for the business, especially coming after O2 had invested in us as a startup (through their Wayra fund).
What did you study at Imperial College?
I was a Chemistry with Management undergraduate in 1993 (and no, I don't dye my hair!). In fact, I was one of the first to take the undergrad course in Management from the small house they had across Exhibition Road. It's great to see how the Management School has expanded since then.
How did your time at Imperial shape your entrepreneurial career?
I'm really proud of my time at Imperial, and in fact my entrepreneurial roots were planted then. In my very first Freshers week, I joined the committee of a brand new society which was quite focused on financial modelling etc. Having managed its events, I became its Chairman in my 3rd year and totally repositioned it, rebranding it as The Finance Society, launching its London University-wide Capital magazine and bringing in some big name event sponsors…all in the midst of a recession! I myself didn't have a deep interest in banking, but it developed my skills in marketing and also managing a big team. It became one of the biggest societies when I left and I understand it's still around today.
A key learning to any student at Imperial today is get involved in an extra-curricular activity. Whatever the society, club or project is, you'll never have an opportunity to practice and learn what you're good or bad at, and the skills you pick up will serve you in any commercial or academic career throughout your life.
How did your career evolve after university?
I switched between corporate marketing roles and doing a startup in the late '90s, the latter with mixed success. I then spent 9 years in the mobile industry, working at O2 and then Vodafone Global, where I was responsible for their Internet Partnerships and Apps worldwide. Looking back, it was quite entrepreneurial as mobile internet was just taking off and was a pretty dynamic environment to work in. I was then itching to do a startup and so set up minicabit in the autumn of 2010.
And how is minicabit doing now?
It's been a long ride with the usual ups and downs of a startup, but it's going great guns now! We've got well over 300 licensed cab operators across the UK on our network; Apple has highlighted our app 6 times in their App Store; and major venues around the UK offer our service to their customers, including The O2 Arena, Wembley Arena, Expedia, London City Airport, and Blenheim Palace amongst many others.
We pride ourselves in doing things differently from what one expects from the cab sector, and are always innovating new ideas. For instance, until end of Sunday 2nd March, our Twitter page (@minicabit) is giving away 2 tickets to see Beyonce live at The O2 Arena, with a cab ride to take you there from anywhere in the UK (upto £200!).
What's your advice to students considering doing or joining a startup?
The startup scene has transformed significantly, particularly in the last 5 years. In my day, joining a corporate would be the natural starting point for a graduate to kickoff their career and gain valuable commercial expertise. Now, cutting edge experience (especially for online, mobile, tech) is arguably to be found in startups, to the point that corporates are increasingly looking to partner with, or hire from, startups as the digital revolution gathers pace. Also, the tools to startup a business are cheaper, and the support network better than ever.
So now is a great time for startups, but I caution to choose your venture wisely, and to be prepared for a lot of hard work in the face of almost constant uncertainty.
Would you hire an Imperial graduate?
My team is made up of mostly fresh graduates, as they typically have the talent and energy my business needs. Funnily enough, I once tried hiring summer interns from Imperial but got zero response, probably because they thought we were a minicab firm! I ended up getting some great grads from UCL, Manchester and Bristol universities – the experience of working in a startup during a prime time BBC TV broadcast will no doubt be added to their CV's. We'll be looking to take on some summer internships, so it would be nice to see some applicants from Imperial this time. We can give them a break from their science and engineering books!
Amer Hasan is CEO of minicabit, www.minicabit.com, @minicabit.


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Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH 03756, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 6:35-41. 2013..The survival of patients who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) for severe aortic stenosis with reduced preoperative ejection fractions (EFs) is not well described in the literature...
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J Vasc Surg 56:1663-8. 2012..We therefore explored trends in amputation among Medicare diabetic patients with a focus on those at highest risk...
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Ann Vasc Surg 25:270-86. 2011..We sought to perform a systematic review of neurologic injury after carotid revascularization to guide future quality improvement efforts focused on reducing potentially preventable events...
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The momentum of RedHawk Athletics continues to build! This year marks the second annual "Walk for the Hawks" and will be held on September 26 at the IU Northwest campus. This fun walk-a-thon helps raise support for our athletic programming, and enables Indiana University Northwest to provide an exceptional experience for our student athletes. These scholars strive for excellence in every competitive arena, and we are proud to see their continued growth and success, in the classroom, at practice, and in our community.
This year's 2nd Annual Walk for the Hawks will provide additional financial support to create a stellar experience for our student athletes.
Your gift will help us create this awesome experience by providing transportation for away games, increase team bonding through away-game meals, cover equipment upgrades, uniform expenses, and so much more for all IU Northwest athletic programs! Your support means our student athletes will have the support they need to get in study time, practice time, be well-rested and prepared for both the classroom and game time!
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Jackson Murphy went 3 for 5 with two RBIs, a homer and a double, and Marcus Wilhite collected three hits as well, as the Chico Nuts American Legion baseball team defeated the Mudville Nine of the Seattle area 16-9 on Friday afternoon.
Greg Darms tripled as Chico (19-8) won their third straight in tournament play at Laurel Creek Park in Fairfield. The Nuts continue play today with a 1 p.m. tilt against Merced.


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An inside scoop on IBM's role in the animated feature film, Foodfight!
IBM teamed up with a company that is producing an animated movie called "Foodfight!".
A working synopsis of the animated film is as follows:
When the lights are turned off and the doors are locked, chaos reigns supreme for the products in this grocery store.
The Foodfight! cast includes the voice talents of Hilary Duff, Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Eva Longoria, and more. The production company is using IBM hardware for the animation and rendering, and as a result, have named the computer in the movie "Blue".
The voice is going to be picked from IBM US, we're told, and IBM employees in the United States are trying out online. A Canadian IBM employee, who is also a good friend of ours, is going to take a run at the role, even though he is from Canada. As this is an internal casting call, only IBM employees have access to the audition link. If you work for IBM US, check out the opportunity internally. You might just have the perfect voice for the job!
Foodfight!, directed by Lawrence Kasanoff, is currently in production and slated for release in spring 2007.
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