“If we are not careful…we will have a developing nation inside a developed nation.”

Sounds a lot like a description of a lot of developing nations, including what I see in the Dominican Republic. But this is actually describing…rural poverty in the USA. The quotation is by World Vision VP of US Programs Romanita Hairston. The full Christianity Today article is here.

Says Hairston:

“It will take multiple sectors responding to fix it, but not the government. The government should stimulate social services but not be a long-term solution. This is not a country that is meant to live with government intervention for long; our economic foundation is not built on that principle.

“There is a free market solution: We need the nonprofit world—and the church—to come around and help.”

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