Tag: poverty
California’s poorest may finally be feeling rising economy
KPCC
Applications for cash welfare reached their lowest point in at least six years in 2016, which economists say might indicate California’s poorest are finally feeling the effects of an improving economy.
Building Networks of Opportunity
Stanford Social Innovation Review
A range of strategies and tools can help people in poor neighborhoods make the economic, political, and social connections they need for success.
Price Center for Social Innovation partners with food bank on community poverty project
Price News
With food banks throughout the country facing increased demand, the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation (Price CSI) has partnered with FIND Food Bank in the Coachella Valley to develop interventions that get at the root of food insecurity.
USC Price centers convene national forum on place-based initiatives
Price News
Geographically concentrated poverty in the United States remains a vexing challenge, despite decades of public and philanthropic initiatives aimed at eliminating it. To share new insights, promote more effective solutions and elevate the national dialogue on such efforts, The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy and the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation convened “Prioritizing Place,” a national forum on the current state of and renewed potential for place-based initiatives.