Family Independence Initiative Careers in Oakland, CA

The fifty-year war on poverty has made living in poverty more tolerable but it has not made it more escapable.Census data shows that within four years, 75% of families living below the poverty line move above it, yet 50% of these families slip back into poverty in five years.A lack of reliable information on the creative ways in which families achieve economic and social mobility.A misplaced focus on individual achievement that overlooks the power of communities to lift people into the middle class, just as communities have done for hundreds of years