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naehomelessness Ending youth #homelessness: Check out @HUDnews recent report on housing for youth aging out of foster care. ow.ly/1MWu4e about 16 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 9 others
ActforDChildren #FactoidFriday 22,211 DC children are in subsidized child care bit.ly/KQZrmy Our thoughts: bit.ly/JqEZoK #DCKidsCount 10:13 AM May 25th via TweetDeck Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 1 other
Let's begin the push to end poverty in DC. #Poverty fb.me/1pYTbwn19 about 23 hours ago via Facebook
TrulonHenry9 Play your part 12:22 PM May 25th via Echofon Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 1 other
@votedave4dc The number of homeless vets could be more... one is too many. Let's make affordable housing a priority. 12:28 PM May 25th via web in reply to votedave4dc
capital_cause A little lunch break reading. #Poverty is not the same as it was 50 years ago---> ht.ly/b9m2S 9:01 AM May 25th via HootSuite Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 2 others
#FF @inspirebbq @CFoxComm @ReachInc @YPTDC @enjoyreadingDC @TheReadingConn @RaiseDC 10:42 AM May 25th via web
Veterans, according to the latest counts, compose 11.8 percent of D.C.'s approximately 5,000 homeless adults. We... fb.me/JokogsoI 9:56 AM May 25th via Facebook
5,000 District children are going without needed mental health services. Great work by our friends at Children's... fb.me/tuxHZzx2 9:51 AM May 25th via Facebook
inspirebbq We have up until 6:00pm to gather all the Votes we can get for the @SteveHarvey & @WHURfm #HOODIEawards *PLEASE VOTE* INSPIREBBQ best BBQ DC 2:20 PM May 24th via web Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC
inspirebbq We are Inspired because of you and we need you more now because we are number four now help us win nominate and pass it on 1:17 PM May 24th via TweetCaster for Android Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC
CMMichaelABrown Read about today's Workforce Intermediary Task Force here- michaelbrownatlarge.com/press/1047/ @DCFPI 12:36 PM May 24th via web Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 1 other
JimGrahamWard1 D.C. Housing Authority finds housing for homeless veterans | WJLA.com: wjla.com/articles/2012/… via @WJLA 9:55 AM May 24th via Tweet Button Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 2 others
Students who enter 9th grade in the bottom quartile are twenty times more likely to drop out of school than their highest performing peers. 9:53 AM May 24th via Facebook
Good to see @TommyWells outside the Wilson Bldg. 9:50 AM May 24th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
JimGrahamWard1 Pre-Construction Meeting for the U Street Streetscape Project will be Wednesday, May 30, 2012 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 9:12 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC and 1 other
@CMMichaelABrown: "we need to allow our small businesses to grow and prosper." You can count on our support. #MakeWorkPossible 8:30 AM May 24th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Unemployment going up among young workers and low-wage workers. #MakeWorkPossible @DCFPI 8:27 AM May 24th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
@DCFPI Elissa Silverman: "nearly 1 in 10 DC residents actively searching for a job can not find one." The Intermediary can make a difference 8:26 AM May 24th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
BreadfortheCity Truly honored to be named finalist for #PostAward with our friends at @cohdc, @ByteBackDC, @I_stage, @YPTDC. 8:21 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by DefeatPovertyDC

Name Defeat Poverty DC
Location Washington, DC
Web http://defeatpove...
Bio Defeat Poverty DC brings together leaders from across DC for a 10-year campaign to cut the number of people in the District living in poverty in half.