Leonard Brock has led RMAPI since its inception in 2015
Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative
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Urban Action 5/16
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Film links guns, politics, and money ROC the Possibilities and several activist groups opposed to gun violence will show the documentary film “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA” on Sunday, May […]
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Mayor Warren’s goal for a poverty-stressed city
People with few skills used to be able to earn a decent living in the country’s factories. That’s no longer true.
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How to reduce poverty: Boost workers’ wages
The statistics shouldn’t be a surprise to any of us; many of them have been in earlier reports. But still, the numbers are staggering. And so are the rankings those numbers put us in. Rochester is the fourth poorest city among the 75 largest metro areas in the country. We have the third-highest concentration of […]
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Urban Action 4/26
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Examining anti-poverty program The League of Women Voters will present a panel discussion May 1 on the topic: “Can Monroe County Reduce Poverty by 50 Percent in 15 Years?” Panelists will be Tori […]
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Perspectives: James Norman
Few people have developed a better understanding of the area’s poverty, the needs of low-income families and children, and the importance of fostering self-sufficiency than the retiring president and CEO of Action for a Better Community.
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We’re not making a dent in our high poverty rate
The Report Card’s bad news is very bad. And it’s the same very bad news found in previous reports.
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The state of our city
Rochester’s Anti-Poverty Initiative has gotten the buy-in of many community leaders and residents. But the obstacles are simply massive.
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Getting the bang out of 500 million bucks
University of Rochester President Joel Seligman spends much of the present thinking about the future. He’s working on a speech titled “The Future of Rochester,” which he’ll give to the Chatterbox Club later this month. As he’s prepared the speech, he says that he’s asked himself how the community envisions itself in 10 years, how […]
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Anti-poverty group zeros-in on city neighborhoods
The Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative at United Way will start pilot programs in adult mentoring and early childhood support in two city neighborhoods this year.
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Rochester’s anti-poverty report: An uninvited skeptic’s review
“I worry that the final recommendations will avoid dealing with the tough issues that decades of studies say have led to this crisis.”
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A path out of poverty
A progress report released last week by the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative includes some heavy lifts. For one, the efforts outlined in the report will undoubtedly require significant funding. And the report says that the Rochester region needs to mitigate societal factors, such as structural racism, that keep people in poverty — no simple task. But […]
