Egyptians are a warm, patient people who, despite overcrowding and poverty, rarely engage in violent crime.
Without governmental policies that address those issues, even those in poverty who engage in constructive behavior will have a difficult time lifting themselves out of it.
"One of the Center for Promise and Opportunity's main goals was to raise awareness about poverty and engage people to fight it," Jonathan Prince, deputy campaign manager, said yesterday.
"We made a game called Save the World, in which players had to find ways to address global issues of pollution and poverty by engaging virtual characters in conversation in order to gather clues," he said.
A different kind of family, reared in poverty and engaged in trade union action, was described by the Breton writer Louis Guilloux in his autobiographical novel, La Maison du peuple (1927; "The House of the People").
Students in courses such as "Practicing Democracy," "Reinventing Boston," and "Poverty in America" engage in service to the community in a manner that informs and motivates academic coursework.
Worldwide one can find evidence that when the prosperity Gospel does engage poverty, it is through the vehicle of education.
Everyone who is concerned about child poverty must urgently find new ways of talking about poverty and inequality that engage voters, parents and people working with families and children.
Re "Poverty's Lasting Ills" (18 and Under, May 14): We won't have a real impact on poverty until we also engage in a parallel effort to change the conditions under which poor people live.
In our country, the President, Members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, and City Council members actively engage on poverty issues every day.
