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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Maybe there will always be people living in poverty, even in a country surrounded by wealth and opportunity. But Karin McQuillan explains the quickest way out of poverty. “We don’t need a $200 million dollar committee. The Census Bureau already has the figures. The cure for poverty is within everyone’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Police in Germantown, Wisconsin are puzzled over who might have left a diamond ring on their Christmas tree. The tree was set up in the department’s lobby during the Christmas season, and the police had invited people to bring their children to decorate the tree and get a stuffed animal in return. They…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police report the story of a Good Samaritan who turned in more than $1,500 in cash. The homeless man reported that he found the cash near Langford, British Columbia. This Good Samaritan was in his 60’s and homeless. Even so, instead of pocketing the cash he wanted to get it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
“The average American with credit card debt owes more than $15,000.” Our massive debts have spawned a whole community of experts explaining how to manage or get rid of the debt. “The strategy begins with cutting up those cards that have the debt.” Then have a strategy to begin paying them off, one by…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Mark Bustos is 30 years old and is a hairstylist who works at an upscale Manhattan salon 6 days a week. On his day off Bustos, goes down onto the streets of New York and gives free haircuts to homeless people living on the sidewalks. He got started giving away trims during a trip to the Philippines.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
California restaurateur Bruno Serato just celebrating serving 1 million meals to local children, and he has not made a penny on any of them. Serato’s restaurant serves nearly 1,200 free meals to children from his community each day, and he just passed the milestone mark. His mother inspired him to feed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Studies have shown that children who grow up in poverty do poorer in school than those who do not. Now, a new study suggests part of the reason stems from changes in how the brains of these children grow and work. The study, which combined the expertise of neuroscientists and economists, found that the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When the owner of an Oklahoma restaurant discovered that someone had been going through food containers in the dumpster, she decided to offer that person a meal. Ashley Jiron, the owner of P.B. Jams said it hurt her that someone had to do that. The thought that someone needed to go through the garbage…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
A survey by LifeWay Resources questioned Christians from Alabama to Wyoming and found that most believe that it is sinful to lend money to someone who can’t afford to pay it back. Most of those who responded also said they want the government to protect consumers from loans with excessive interest, yet…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Berkeley California may be the first city to require a business to give a portion of its product to the poor. While two percent is not a biblical tithe, it is a portion of the company’s wealth. The law says that medical marijuana dispensaries must give away at least 2 percent of their pot free to very…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A new ordinance in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has many people asking question the best way to care for the hungry. The city commission passed an ordinance that banned public sharing of food and requires any group feeding people in a public place to provide portable toilets as well. The commission maintains…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
When members of the YouTube comedy group, Whatever, met a Czech national named Jaroslav in New York City, they knew they needed to do more than include him in a film. Jaroslav didn’t speak much English, but explained that he had come to the United States a few months earlier in hopes of finding work.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In his book, Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In, Louis Zamperini writes, “My father had a rule: We pay our bills first, and then we eat. We all need a code of ethics to guide us, especially in tough times when everyone has to do their part for the greater good, for the family or the group to survive.” --Jim…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A Swedish newspaper aimed at helping people live on the streets has come up with a unique way to raise funds. The paper has launched a website featuring what they call the “Faktum Hotel”, named after the paper. The hotel does away with beds, bathrooms, and the roof, allowing patrons to spend the night…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A church group in North Carolina had passed out coffee and breakfast sandwich to the city’s homeless every weekend for six years. When they returned to the site recently, officers from the police department met them and told them if they distributed food, they would be arrested. Seventy people had already…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Retailers that help customers by allowing them to extend payment on their Christmas gifts through layaway say they are seeing a growing trend of people who want to help others by paying off their layaway balances. Several major retailers say they have seen more than 1,000 instances each season totaling…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The “Whatever video team” ran into Jarosla, a 53-year-old homeless Czech man, while distributing clothing from the Thread Society (www.threadsociety.com) to people in need. They listened as Jaroslav explained that He came to America in hopes of finding a job, but was unsuccessful. While in a New York…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Rock star Jon Bon Jovi has traveled the world and eaten in the world’s finest restaurants. Now, he is opening a restaurant of his own, The Soul Kitchen, established in a former auto body shop near his hometown in central New Jersey. Several years ago, Bon Jovi started a foundation to help those in need…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Rankin Paynter of Winchester, Kentucky made a business decision to purchase the entire inventory of a closing Kmart store. It looked like a promising business proposition. After thinking about it a little and observing the poor around his town, he donated the entire $200,000 worth of goods to a community…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Dave Wilson is a luxury car dealer. He owns dealerships in Southern California and Arizona. He remembers what it was like back when he was a janitor on the graveyard shift at Kmart. He was looking for a birthday present for his wife, whose birthday falls in December. On his local radio, he heard about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When Forbes magazine compiled its most recent list of the world’s wealthiest people, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates was no longer on top. Gates was replaced by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim. Slim did not capture the new position because his business grew dramatically; rather he became the world’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
THE POOR The Arizona Cardinals did not win Super Bowl XLIII, but some people still think they are champions. The dramatic twist in the final minutes of the game gave the Pittsburgh Steelers the world championship, and made the pre-printed Arizona Cardinals champion gear unsellable in the United States.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
POOR In some places in Nevada it is legal to gamble or sleep with a prostitute, but it is illegal to give a homeless person something to eat. Las Vegas made it a crime to feed a homeless person in the city park. This law isn't random insanity; proponents of the law say that there are unintended consequences…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
HOPELESSNESS What do you do when life totally falls in on you? With no money, no car, no place to live, and no way to care for her little boy, Tiffany Toribio chose the dark path. She placed her hand over her 3-year-old son’s mouth and suffocated him, twice. The first time she performed CPR to restore…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Spirit of Christmas "Honey, how much did you spend?" This is a question I ask a lot. I'm the bookkeeper of the family and I always try to keep us on budget. Susan and the boys just got back from shopping for gifts we would send to children of war-torn countries. She didn't answer the question, instead,…