budgets

The Obama Budget's Promise and Peril

Bob Greenstein 4-07-2009

I've been asked for a few words about how the recession may affect poverty in the United States, and also about policy issues related to poverty that have emerged from the economic recovery legislation and from the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

Our Moral Audit of the Budget

Jim Wallis 3-02-2009

Four years ago, faced with a disastrous federal budget proposal, Sojourners coined a phase, "budgets are moral documents." That phrase has now entered the common lexicon, but it remains our fundam

The Poverty Forum's Three Points of Common Ground

Jim Wallis 2-20-2009

It is the power of relationships that make new things possible. Relationships are the foundation of and the means for creating a culture shift.

Supporting the Poor Stimulates the Economy

Adam Russell Taylor 2-11-2009

Sadly, the debate around the economic recovery and stimulus package has often been characterized by the politics of the past rather than the politics of the future. Ideology too often trumps sound economics and recent experience. In the fight against poverty, the current recession and economic crisis provides one of those rare moments when targeted efforts to lift up low-income Americans also provide the greatest stimulus to the economy.