Several months ago ICPJ’s Racial and Economic Justice Task Force organized a welfare simulation in Lansing for a group of business leaders involved in the state’s Welfare to Work project, it was a powerful simulation, and the Lansing City Pulse did a cover story about it.

Well, that cover story got one reader thinking about poverty in America, so he decided to do a little experiment and try to live a month on only $30 worth of food and write about it on his blog.
The posts are in reverse chronological order, so it works best to start at the bottom and read to the top.

I heard about this in a nonprofit online newsletter that was talking about perspective in the face of the holiday season’s excess.

I’m amazed at how far the ripples of ICPJ’s work can reach!

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