Joanna Cattanach
Joanna Cattanach is a freelance writer and journalism instructor in Dallas. Shepreviously worked for the Dallas Morning News and has written on a wide varietyof topics from roller derby and rattlesnake hunting to the challenges of newmotherhood. She recently won first place for her personal essay at the 2012Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine. Check out her blog at ChickTalk Dallas [https://www.chicktalkdallas.com/blog/].
Plano ISD recently hosted its second poverty simulation in which participantspretended to be poor for a few hours.Almay
Cheryl Jackson from Minnie's Food Pantry told Channel 8 that allowing people tosteal as part of a poverty simulation isn't effective.WFAA
The Game of Life
A case of misplaced empathy: Sipping Starbucks and stealing does not simulatepoverty
Nov 13, 2012 | 2:57 pm