Some of the spillage in the Niger Delta has been caused by poverty -- pipelines have been broken into or sabotaged by poor Nigerians who feel it's the only way they will ever get a share of what should be theirs by right.
With a satellite receiver mounted at their library, and a broadcast antenna on the village water tower, Chesterhill, where 20percentt of the residents live below the poverty line, now has a 1.5-megabit Internet pipeline in the air.
If there was ever a beachhead in the long forgotten War on Poverty, creating a pipeline for the educational equality of children experiencing foster care is it.
"The poverty-to-prison pipeline is not just a pipeline," Moore said.
Yet by insufficiently funding the English education provisions in the Refugee Act and by placing an emphasis on refugees' rapid transition to "economic self-sufficiency," refugees are funneled into pipelines of poverty, with little hope of upward mobility.
The central African nation of Chad, which had tried to violate its agreement with the World Bank to dedicate most of the revenues from a bank-supported oil pipeline to poverty reduction, reached an interim deal with the bank yesterday that would give the bank and Chad three months to reach a final settlement, a bank official said.
But drug-related incarceration has little to do with the risks of recreational drug use, and everything to do with keeping the systems in place that fuel violence, systemic racism, the cycle of poverty, and the prison pipeline.
During our forum we discussed issues most impacting the Bayview neighborhood, including the technology divide, the teacher shortage, a lack of diversity in the teaching profession, the school-to-prison pipeline, generational poverty, and how to strengthen community partnerships.
While she is willing to use the "schools-to-prison" shorthand, Smith said it is more accurate to call it "the poverty-to-prison pipeline".
If we are really serious about transformation, if we are sick of paralyzing cycles of poverty, poor educational outcomes, and pipelines to prison filled with untapped promise, we must be committed to evoking the entrepreneur.
