“Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011”
Read the results of the 2011 census on poverty and income. Published by the United States Census Bureau.
Category: Race & ethnicity
“As poverty remains stagnant, churches call for greater advocacy”
Read a Sept. 12, 2012, article published by the Religion News Service about an increase in poverty advocacy in churches.
“Poverty Maps From 1980 Look Astonishingly Different Compared to 2010”
Read a July 2, 2013, article published by The Atlantic about how the geographic locations and racial makeup of poverty has changed.
“Poverty’s spread to suburbs strains social service agencies”
Read a July 7, 2013, article in at JournalNews.com about how poverty has spread into suburban areas.
“Overcoming generational poverty not an easy task”
Read a July 7, 2013, News-Gazette article about teachers working to overcome generational poverty by understanding the “culture of poverty.”
Audrey B. Chapman
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ReShonda Tate Billingsley
ReShonda Tate Billingsley writes Christian fiction directed at African-American women and teenage girls. Some of her books feature single characters using their faith to cope with issues. She left her job as a television news reporter in Houston to write full time.
Monique Moultrie
Monique Moultrie is a professor of religious studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, who specializes in women/gender studies, African-American studies and sexuality – specifically on African-American single Christian women. She says more black women are single – and likely to stay that way – than any other population.