Summit on the Hardships of Poverty
By Michael Hill
Correspondent
Susan Parker says a divorce left her hungry and homeless.
“You really can’t even describe the level of devastation you feel when you don’t have a place to sleep, you don’t have a place to take a shower,” she said.
Angela Jackson found out after she was downsized in the financial sector and then her 6-year-old cleaning business lost its customers. She lived off her savings.
“That all ran out. It gets cold in a car,” Jackson said….
The faces of hardship at the Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey’s annual summit, where executive director Serena Rice talked about weeding out poverty by uncovering the roots of racial and economic injustice through a series of listening sessions across the state. [Read more at NJTVNEWS]