Idaho

Sue Traver, Bonner County (Sandpoint) Extension Educator writes a wonderful newsletter, Class Matters, discussing various poverty issues relevant to our state and to Horizons communities. Issues are available to download in pdf format at the University of Idaho Horizons website or you may click on the links below:

Vol. 1, no. 1–Poverty Thresholds/Poverty Guidelines
Vol. 1, no. 2–Budgeting in the ‘State’ of Poverty
Vol. 1, no. 3–Are We Created Equal?
Vol. 2, no. 1–History of Poverty in the U.S.
Vol. 2, no. 2–Working Hard and Getting By
Vol. 2, no. 3–History of Poverty–Great Depression

Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, ‘Migrant Mother’ captures the image of a destitute mother and her children. One family out of over 4 million migrants, they had just sold their tent in order to buy food.

See this photo and more at ‘A Photo Essay on the Great Depression‘ hosted by the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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