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Some antipoverty agencies, looking for ways to stay afloat and to pull inner-city communities out of the recession, have considered going into business. The record of nonprofit organizations that have started up ventures around the country, here illustrated by five cases in California, shows that such ventures can be viable job-training and job-creation enterprises. They can generate most of their needed income in their first few years and reach break-even over a longer period. They can hire and train the chronically unemployed and give them the skills and experience they need to go on to regular jobs in private enterprise. Their development is encouraging to executives in corporations, who want to see the poor become less dependent on government funding. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on how the city of Beverly Hills, California is pushing for $12 million in federal aid to repair the local high school which was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. How federal officials only paid $1.1 million; Reasons for the lesser amount.

Information about the Symposium on Poverty, hosted by the County Welfare Directors Association held in October 2009 in California, is presented. Participants of the event have the opportunity to learn about significant efforts to eradicate poverty and hear about anti-poverty programs from the experts under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization. The symposium which started with a video presentation by students was seen as thought-provoking, educational and inspiring.

Presents statistics of entrepreneurship in the U.S. as of March 2004. Percentage of microentrepreneurs who made money over five years according to a 1999 study; Increase in household income; Number of assistance programs for low-income entrepreneurs in California and North Dakota in 2002; Decrease in entrepreneurs' reliance on government assistance; Sizes of loans for entrepreneurs in 2002.