Fridays With Larry: The poverty we don’t see

Letter to the Editor: The Poverty We Don’t See

by Alexander Rojas When I first learned that more than 826 million people around the world live on the equivalent of less than $3.00 a day, I was stunned. Not $3.00 in their local economy, but the purchasing power of about $3.00 here in the United States. The statistic completely changed how I thought about […]

Fridays With Larry: The poverty we don’t see

Hamilton County looks prosperous by almost every measure. But behind the county’s rising incomes, new neighborhoods and economic growth are thousands of working households struggling to afford housing, food, child care, transportation and health care. On this week’s Fridays With Larry, Larry Lannan looks beyond the familiar urban image of poverty and examines the financial hardship found in the middle of suburban communities. In Hamilton County,…