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Poverty

Don’t Give Up on Giving: How a Theology of Creation Informs Resilient Poverty Solutions

| November 2, 2015 | Poverty

Don’t Give Up on Giving: How a Theology of Creation Informs Resilient Poverty Solutions
Recently, Joe Coletti at The Federalist wrote about private giving in his reviews of Robert Lupton’s “Charity Detox” and Arthur Brooks’ “The Conservative Heart.”  Coletti contrasts old concepts of charity with the efforts of people like Lupton, who founded the...
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Sara Belz
Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.

Seeing Life Through a Beggar’s Eyes

| June 24, 2015 | Poverty

Seeing Life Through a Beggar’s Eyes
Seven years ago during the Acumen fellowship program, I was challenged to spend a day on the streets of New York trying to better understand the plight of the 59,000+ homeless in New York City. The experience was an exercise in moral imagination, which Jacqueline...
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Joel Montgomery
Joel Montgomery has worked in 31 countries, lived in five, and speaks three languages. With a career straddling the private and social sectors, Joel has experience working with large Fortune 100 companies and small startups.

4 Takeaways from Pres. Obama’s Conversation with Arthur Brooks and Robert Putnam

| May 13, 2015 | Poverty

4 Takeaways from Pres. Obama’s Conversation with Arthur Brooks and Robert Putnam
Thoughtful, bi-partisan conversations in Washington are a lot like uncooked steak—rare. That’s why yesterday’s conversation on poverty between President Obama, AEI President Arthur Brooks, and Harvard Professor Robert Putnam was so unusual, intriguing, and...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.