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Cause Calendars 2011: Poverty in the USA
We seek beauty and purpose both. These calendars are an attempt to share beauty in its natural and constructed forms along with some facts and a quote to remind us of injustice. Please download and share, and consider a gift to charity. Also available: 2010 (environmental justice), 2009 (global poverty)
Washington DC: (1) Lincoln Memorial (2) Washington Monument (3) National Mall (4) Capitol
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(2) (4)
Wyoming: (5) Eagle at sunrise (6) Afternoon mountains (7) Morning reflection (8) Yellowstone expanse
(5) (7)
(6) (8)
Calendar awareness message:
2011
“America is great because America
is good. If America ever ceases to
be good, she will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
Today in America…
One in seven of our people lives in poverty, earning less than $11,000 per year
One in six is food insecure, unable to put food on the table in a given year
One in five children lives in poverty, earning less than $22,000 in a family of four
One in four children faces hunger, the highest number since recording began in ’95
More than one half of our people live in poverty at least one year of their lives
Black and Hispanic citizens are 3 times as likely as whites to experience poverty
3-4 million citizens are homeless in a given year, nearly half of them children
One family, the Waltons, enjoys more wealth than 100 million of our people
