Partnership's New Report Frames a Future of Scarcity

The Community Action Partnership is pleased to present this special report, Facing the New Reality: Preparing Poor America for Harder Times Ahead. The report deals with the combined effects of resource depletion, climate change, and economic turmoil as they are expected to impact low income families and communities, and the Community Action Agencies and other organizations working with this population, in the months and years to come.

Facing the New Reality is not a policy paper nor does it represent a formal policy of the Partnership.  Feedback to the Partnership office is running about 50/50 in enthusiastic support versus dour uneasiness.  The Partnership’s Strategic Initiatives Task Force has been examining this complex set of issues for well over a year with full transparency.  Presentations at the past four annual conventions, updates through our e news and Promise magazine, and through other communications.  We recognize that the severity of this prognosis mean seem exaggerated to some people.  Conversely, the U.S. Department of Defense, Johns Hopkins University and other highly-respected agencies and organizations are focusing on the impact of major national and international oil, energy, food, water and other resource shortages and potential crises.

  Facing the New Reality: Preparing Poor America for Harder Times Ahead
— A Special Report from the Community Action Partnership*

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* This report was produced by the Board of Directors and national staff of the Community Action Partnership.  The views put forward in this report are not assumed to be endorsed by each and every one of the Partnership’s member agencies.