Impact of the Poverty Scholars Program - Erika Almiron and Koby Murphy
Erika Almiron and Koby Murphy — Philadelphia Student Union, Philadelphia "One of the most poignant moments of my life, as I was up on that mountain [at the Leadership School in West Virginia], one of my students said to me “hearing that explosion on the mountain[from mountain top removal] reminds me the way I’m used to the shootings in my neighborhoods. The things that are causing the shootings in my neighborhood are the same things that are causing these explosions.” The Poverty Initiative grows peoples thousands and thousands miles away from where they were when they started."
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A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - the Poverty Initiative's newest original publication is 
