Please visit Beth Quick’s site. Her most recent blog entry is about poverty — and specifically about “Poverty IQ” — there’s a great quiz at beliefnet.com:
“Test Your Poverty I.Q.: Do you know how many children in the U.S. are living in poverty right now? Or which area of the world is home to the most hungry people? Take the quiz to see how attuned you are to the problem of poverty in the U.S. and in the world.”
I took the quiz, and was struck by different things than the ones Beth Quick talks about — and you will, as well, be struck by the issues presented.
What most struck me, though perhaps didn’t surprise me all that much, is that children in this country are in some of the worst poverty in the world. We seldom talk about poverty in this country as an issue — maybe it is something that needs the attention of every household, and every community. In every prayer, let us remember the starving children in this country — the ones whose parents work at Walmart, the ones whose parents don’t work at all, and the ones whose parents are never there.
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