Good article, Dennis, but I have no idea how you have stayed the course 
on this.
Sandi

Dennis Raphael wrote:

>Warning: Poverty message a `downer'
>Apr. 18, 2006. 01:00 AM
>JIM COYLE, Toronto Star
>
>There was nothing new, but maybe something serendipitous, in the
>observations yesterday on the Star's letters page by York University
>professor Dennis Raphael.
>
>The long-time anti-poverty advocate, responding to a Sunday Star feature
>that fancifully envisioned Toronto's future, said ``nothing to improve the
>quality of life will really be accomplished unless the grinding poverty,
>hunger and homelessness that stalks the city is eliminated.''
>
>As it happens, Raphael, an associate professor in York's school of health
>policy and management, and colleagues Toba Bryant and Marcia Roux will have
>a book launch on Thursday. In Staying Alive, he once more makes the case
>that health is often dependent less on medical or lifestyle issues than on
>government decisions that influence the distribution of income, the degree
>of social security, and the quality and availability of education, food and
>housing.
>
>In short, he says, poverty makes people sick. Not only that, the gap
>between rich and poor is probably a bigger threat to public health than the
>exotic germs and ailments that so fascinate news media and dominate those
>pages and newscasts not given over to celebrities or conspicuous
>consumption.
>
>Lately, Raphael has found himself in the decidedly unfamiliar position of
>having some company in raising issues of poverty and the wealth gap.
>
>Earlier this month, the New Yorker's John Cassidy wrote an article
>considering the notion of ``relative deprivation'' and looking at whether
>thresholds established as ``poverty lines'' have any real meaning... SNIP
>
>http://tinyurl.com/el2n6
>
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