December 2007
18 posts
Map of Freeport Food Pantry
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Broll of a single family food bag from the Freeport food pantry for Nassau News Story.
Some B-roll film of the Freeport food pantry freezers for Nassau News Story
Interview with Barbara Harrison for Nassau News Story
Full interview with Rev. Thomas Goodhue for Nassau News Story
Serving the poor is central to the faith.
– Richard Koubek, Catholic Charities public policy administrator and point-person for MICA
I’ve never known hunger but, looking back on it, I have been right up on...
– Katti Gray Newsday columnist
Reform of poverty line
John E. Schwarz. a senior fellow at Demos, a national public policy organization in Manhattan, and the author of “Freedom Reclaimed,” calls for reform in of the national poverty line.
Poverty Levels
In 1994 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology ran an article by Leonard Gaines and Pearl M. Kamer that detailed how the system for judging the poverty level on long island needed to be adjusted.
the 2006 census from the U.S. Census Bureau that... →
Study from the Long Island Index that was... →
A short blurb originally from Newsday.com about... →
Article originally from Newsday.com about the... →
Long Island Cares brochure →
The BUM Documentaries Created by two Long Island high schoolers.
United Way of Long Island on poverty, facts and... →
Health & Welfare Council of Long Island, facts and... →
Long Island Index on poverty, facts and figures →