Poverty Challenge
The Poverty Challenge is a three-day event designed to raise awareness about poverty in our community. Participants are challenged to live on either a poverty-level or minimum wage budget for three days, making choices about spending habits and reflecting on those choices. The event is by no means an attempt to “play poor”; rather, the goal is to provide participants with a more nuanced understanding of poverty. Specifically, the Challenge highlights the structural causes of poverty—lack of employment, lack of living wages, education disparities, lack of affordable housing, lack of adequate childcare, transportation complications, lack of adequate healthcare…the list could go on—and attempts to disrupt common stereotypes that blame poverty on individual laziness and vice.
More information regarding the Poverty Challenge can be found under Research.
2008 Poverty Challenge
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2009 Poverty Challenge
2010 Poverty Challenge
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- Electronic Media- Done by WNYMedia.net: http://wnymedia.net/?s=poverty+challenge
The Poverty Challenge is part of the Homeless Alliance’s larger Poverty Awareness Week.
