Under Catholic Charities leadership, this campaign is focused on getting the concerns of people in poverty into the campaign debates. Check below to see how you can take an active part. 

For ready to use educational materials on poverty and Catholic Social Teaching, visit www.educationforjustice.org.

Additional materials on Poverty and the Election Campaign will be available later this week at www.coc.org/election2008.

For the first time, the urban population of the world will outnumber the rural. These events will pass unnoticed by most people, but it will constitute a watershed in human history. Learm more about the forces behind the scenes that are driving this dynamic, and how we must all work to ensure that opportunities luring workers to cities do not end up creating vast slums of unemployed.

This resource provides a brief overview of the vision of the social tradition in light of the warning signs and impacts of global climate change. 

There are 60 countries in today’s world that are poorer than they were thirty years ago. A fifth of the world’s population (1.2 billion people) lives on less than $1 per day and almost half the world’s population, or 2.8 billion people, live on less than $2 a day. Every second, a child dies of malnutrition. Economic injustice still plagues most of the world, providing a strong impetus for immigration. Given this situation, any true solution to illegal immigration to the U.S. must take into account the root causes of the poverty from which many immigrants are trying to escape. This resource looks at these root causes, especially those which have been perpetuated by U.S. foreign policy which has not focused on the well-being of the poorest.