Results for keyword: poverty
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A new measure of poverty shifts rankings in the West
When determining who is poor, the Census Bureau takes geography into account in its Supplemental Poverty Measure.
by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 10, 2012 -
The great New Mexican juniper massacre
On public land in New Mexico, firewood-hunters have illegally cut down hundreds of old-growth juniper trees, much to the dismay of the Bureau of Land Management and environmental activists.
by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 16, 2012 -
The teenagers we're not helping
The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters.
by Tim Lydon, May 10, 2012 -
A do-it-yourself Christmas tradition
How do you make Christmas meaningful? Help someone you've never even met.
by Andrea Gelfuso Goetz, Dec 21, 2011 -
Times are tough all over
Where's the compassion for the poor bullied 1 percent of the world -- the rich people who just aren't as rich as they ought to be?
by Jaime O'Neill, Oct 20, 2011 -
The painful beauty of love
Melanie Rae Thon's short stories, gathered in her collection In This Light, paint a desolate and tender picture of the West.
by Kathleen Yale, May 15, 2011 -
The persistence of a golden time in the West
Seventy years after the publication of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, migrant workers still roam the West, eking out a tough living in its orchards and farm fields.
by David Frey , Apr 24, 2009 -
Tent cities and what they tell us
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India, but all over the West, tent cities and shantytowns are springing up to house the dispossessed.
by Jonathan Thompson , Mar 31, 2009 -
Dust off your survival skills
In tough economic times like these, we could learn a lot from our pioneer ancestors, who managed to survive – and thrive – in a harsh Western landscape.
by Marcia Hensley, Mar 19, 2009 -
Slumdog U.S.A.
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India. But they exist here, too.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 16, 2009
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