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Health and Society

Raising Resilient Children: Pathways out of Poverty

The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are a time of tremendous potential and enormous vulnerability. How well or how poorly mothers and children are nourished and cared for...

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Raising Resilient Children: Early Childhood Development and Catholic Social Teaching

The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are a time of tremendous potential and enormous vulnerability. How well or how poorly mothers and children are nourished and cared for...

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Health and Society

Outsmarting Poverty

For more information on how the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities is turning the tide on poverty, please visit their website. To nominate an organization in your...

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Health and Society

Emergency Financial Assistance Prevents Homelessness

Homelessness has become an increasingly worrisome crisis in our nation over the past several years, but a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows that efforts to prevent...

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Evidence Matters

The latest event in the Evidence Matters series featured representatives from King County Metro Transit, Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services, and LEO...

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Health and Society

What the Experts Say

Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou The Poet Maya Angelou calls us to Informed Action here. Her words speak to...

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Global Affairs

Pathways Out of Poverty

The question of entrepreneurship as part of the solution to global poverty is receiving increasing attention from scholars, economic development professionals, government...

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Global Affairs

Understanding the Unique Challenges Faced by Low-Income and Disadvantaged Female Entrepreneurs

There is an emerging body of research on poverty and entrepreneurship, and a considerable amount of attention has been devoted to issues surrounding women and entrepreneurship....

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Global Affairs

Rethinking the Role of the Extractive Industries with Peter Bryant of the Development Partner Institute

Episode Five continues the discussion with the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, part of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, on the extractive industries....

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Global Affairs

Activism in the Extractive Industries with Ian Gary of Oxfam America

Ian Gary – Director of Power and Money at Oxfam America – talks with Ray Offenheiser and discusses the ethics and activism in the extractive industries. This episode is a...

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Health and Society

Poverty in America: Is Progress Possible in our Polarized Times?

LEO’s Managing Director Heather Reynolds joined the American Enterprise Institute and other poverty experts for a panel discussion on “Poverty in America: Is Progress Possible...

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