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D.C. Poverty in Art

By Emily Welch February 27, 2015

For the very first time, the work of the self-taught Washington, D.C. artist known by his alter ego Mingering Mike is on public display. This exhibit is the manifestation of a youthful fantasy coming...

Balancing the Unequal Ebola Epidemic

By Spencer Crawford February 10, 2015

In the first of Georgetown’s Global Futures lectures last week, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group described the core mission of his development-based financial institution. Kim aligned...

USAID Executive Discusses Extreme Poverty

By Ashley Miller February 3, 2015

Assistant to the Administrator for Policy, Planning and Learning at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Alex Thier, confronted skepticism regarding the possibility of ending extreme poverty...

GU Ranked 7th for TFA Alumni

By Gene Choi October 24, 2014

Teach For America put Georgetown University in the top 20 in the list of medium-sized universities contributing the most alumni to the program for the seventh year in a row. Georgetown ranked seventh...

DC Poverty Rate Increases

By Lucy Pash October 7, 2014

As the region struggles to recover from the recession, the poverty rate in Washington, D.C., which has steadily risen since 2007, reached 18.9 percent in 2013, a marginal increase from the previous year,...

CORREIA: We Shouldnt Fight Poverty Like Its 1964

CORREIA: We Shouldn’t Fight Poverty Like It’s 1964

By Tricia Correia September 26, 2014

In President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 State of the Union address, he declared, “This administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America. … Our aim is not only to relieve...

Winter Homelessness to Rise

By Maddy Moore September 9, 2014

The new Winter Plan released by the District of Columbia’s Interagency Council on Homelessness predicts a 16 percent increase in the number of homeless families seeking services in Washington, D.C, from...

Catholic Forum Explores Social Thought on Poor

By Nick Simon December 6, 2013

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought held its second dialogue focusing on poverty under the Pontificate of Pope Francis Monday night in Gaston Hall. The event, “The Pope and the Poor: Challenges...

Columnist Examines Poverty in Black America

By Molly DePippo April 5, 2013

Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert called for increased attention to poverty facing black America in a lecture Thursday evening. Sponsored by the Georgetown University Library Associates and...

World Bank President Calls for Action on Poverty

By Meghan Patzer April 5, 2013

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim presented a bold vision for the end of global poverty in Gaston Hall Tuesday afternoon. “We now have the opportunity to rid the world of the stain of global poverty...

Change Takes Change: Living on One

By Marlene Cox and Marlene Cox September 27, 2012

"What can I do?" "If each individual can help a single other individual...we can change the world." Imagine living on nothing but one dollar a day. Just one dollar. The same dollar you may use for...

A Different Neck of the Woods

By Jonathan Gillis April 20, 2012

Omar wears his life on his face. Swollen cheeks and a slightly crooked nose are the remnants of a boxing career that ended abruptly in 1995. Deep wrinkles run through his forehead, a testament to years...

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