AMERICA'S POVERTY FIGHTING NETWORK
KLCAS News
Rooting Out Poverty
News Release
Media Contact: Donna Bowman
Klamath & Lake Community Action Agency joins National Campaign to Reduce Poverty and Promote Economic Security
Klamath Falls, Oregon—Klamath & Lake County Community Action Agency is joining forces with other Community Action Agencies across America in a nationwide campaign to significantly reduce poverty. The campaign, Rooting Out Poverty: A Campaign by America’s Community Action Network, is a call to action to promote economic security for all American’s, especially those who are poor. Published by the Community Action Partnership—a national organization with more than 1,000 member agencies—Rooting Out Poverty will also be released nationally in New Orleans during the Partnership’s 2008 Winter Management and Leadership Training Conference.
"With input from Community Action Agencies that work in the trenches daily fighting poverty and promoting economic security, Rooting Out Poverty contains effective and realistic strategies that will help create a strong economy for all Americans,” said Donna Bowman, Executive Director. “We are confident that these suggestions will benefit Klamath and Lake Counties and provide a blueprint for enhancing the lives of our low-income families.”
The Community Action Partnership developed this campaign with input from several hundred key leaders from the local, state and national levels. Rooting Out Poverty offers five action themes and more than two dozen specific recommendations and strategies to help children, families, senior citizens and other individuals who are vulnerable to poverty, economic deprivation, and other significant barriers to economic self-sufficiency.
