The Poor People’s United Fund is a Boston-based organization that works to eliminate the causes of suffering due to poverty. PPUF advocates and educates in order to change the policies and perceptions that lead to that suffering. Learn more… Please read our newsletter.

More than one in six Americans (18.2 percent) said in 2012 that there had been times over the past 12 mo. that they didn’t have enough money to buy the food they needed .

PPUF, Program Director, Georgia Mattison attended the annual FRAC (Food Research and Action Center) conference with hundreds of advocates from across the country.

See current statistics on food insecurity at http://frac.org/reports-and-resources/hunger-and-poverty/disparities-in-food-insecurity/

Urban Meditations is outcast political theology by two of Boston’s leading advocates, Kip Tiernan and Fran Froehlich. It is a forty-year reflection on life for some in Boston and elsewhere. We hope you will read the Book. To buy it for yourself or as a gift for someone Click Here

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