Children of Poverty
- Program offers the gift of literacy for Buffalo’s babies
For some families, it’s a rite of childhood as familiar as the comb, brush and bowl full of mush it so lovingly describes.
- Belle Center perseveres despite neighborhood turmoil
Jaleel Younger, a freshman at Hutchinson-Central Technical High School, goes to the Father Belle Community Center on a daily basis.
- Charity Vogel: Poverty shrinks life’s choices
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Updated: 11/10/08 7:30 AM Rose Cannon goes to the supermarket on her $14. But she doesn’t get far.
- A model for successful schools
Buffalo’s Westminster Community Charter School has received $12 million over the last 15 years from its partnership with M&T Bank, a driving force in the school’s dramatic turnaround.
- Poverty line numbers don’t add up in 2008
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/11/08 12:12 PM If a family of four in Buffalo has an income of less than $21,027 a year, that’s considered living below the poverty line.
- Looking for a blueprint to fight poverty in Buffalo
In Boston, affordable housing replaced blight after a neighborhood gained control of 30 acres to redevelop.
- Campaign offers little on how to aid the poor
Barack Obama grew up in a middle-class household. Abandoned by his father as a boy, he was raised by his grandparents and a single mother who sometimes needed food stamps to feed her children.
- School offers a safe haven for learning, but no easy answers
The rules are perfectly clear at Buffalo's Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, where pupils are disciplined for talking in the hallway, chewing gum or not tucking in their uniform tops.
- Dramatic turnaround produced model student
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 11/11/08 12:50 PM Danisha Anderson's turnaround was dramatic and inspiring. In elementary school and through her freshman year at Buffalo's Burgard High School, she fought with classmates, argued with teachers and took innocent comments as personal insults. Several times she was suspended from school the same day she returned from a previous suspension.
- Looking for a way out: One family's struggle on the East Side
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 11/11/08 12:51 PM Life for seventh-grader Davon Johnson seems to run in threes.
- Day in, day out: trying to fill the emptiness
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 11/11/08 12:52 PM For kids growing up today in Buffalo, poverty means hunger. Hunger for a parent at the front door after school.
- Growing up in a world without fathers
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 10/27/08 3:08 PM Many poverty-stricken households are run by single mothers. Where are the fathers? That's a question many ask, from mothers and children to social workers and academics.
- Is the American dream still possible for poor kids in Buffalo?
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 10/27/08 3:08 PM Poverty in Buffalo used to be a story of possibility. Think about the people who built this city years ago: immigrants who arrived with nothing in their pockets. Many of them found decent jobs in a growing city, worked hard and carved out a little slice of the American Dream.
- The problem with medical insurance is severe for Buffalo's poor, especially minorities
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 10/27/08 3:08 PM Mae Bynum of University Heights chose treating her grandson's wounded leg over healing his troubled mind. She couldn't afford insurance co-pays for both.
- Update Feb. 10: Illiterate children are poor beyond words
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Updated: 10/27/08 3:02 PM Andre Vernor is only 10, but he’s got a big dream.
- Trying to fill the emptiness day in and day out
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Updated: 11/18/08 12:24 PM For kids growing up today in Buffalo, poverty means hunger. Hunger for a parent at the front door after school.
- Exposing the poverty of Buffalo’s children
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Updated: 11/07/08 3:05 PM How much do we care about 3-year-old Kae’Sean Fields?
- War on illiteracy must be fought on home front, too
Updated: 10/27/08 3:02 PMThose who fight illiteracy in Buffalo on a daily basis say the problem must be tackled in major ways.
