WASHINGTON – It’s taken a plunging stock market, the deficit debate, foreclosure signs on neighborhood houses and the threat of a double-dip recession to force Americans to say it out loud: Poverty. Some worry that the conversation about the “P” word is more about the “nouveau poor” than about [...]
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INDIO, Calif. — Santiago Vargas sits on a wooden bench under the awning of his mobile home, looking at another bill he just picked up from his mailbox. “I thought the American Dream meant owning your home, but for me it was just paying bills,” he said [...]
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ANTIOCH, Calif. — In 2005, Ethel Gist bought her “dream home” in a gated retirement community in Brentwood, Calif. Now three generations of Gist’s family members are living under one roof in a rented house in Antioch. The loss of their homes has thrown their lives into upheaval. [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Ethel Gist bought her dream house and planned to retire to Antioch, Calif. Instead, the 70-year-old lost the house during the height of the foreclosure crisis, and now rents a place with her daughter and two grandchildren. After he lost his three-bedroom home in East [...]
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From the moment we realize that life goes hand-in-hand with a lifestyle, vague notions of the American Dream hover in the background. Embraced or rejected, they are almost impossible to escape. Yet the definition of that dream varies. Newspaper columnists opine about the holy grail of middle-class values. Pop [...]
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On a crisp morning in October, 300 low-income families and their allies – all members of a movement known as the Equal Voice Coalition – gathered at a hotel in San Francisco with an ambitious goal: Together, they would spend the next nine hours devising strategies to push the [...]
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Apr 17 2012
Michael Seifert | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network Compañero. The word means “companion,” and is from the Latin, meaning “the one I share bread with.” A compañero, then, is someone with whom you share the bread of life—be it the bread of the day’s hopes and dreams, struggles and disappointments, or blessings and bounding happiness, which, experienced alone, remain Read more →
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