Creativity needed for social change.

Byline: Jane Erikson

Mar. 9--Do you care that 20 percent of Tucsonans live in poverty and that the median family income here is 26 percent lower than for the nation as a whole? The people who gathered for Thursday's Poverty Trap workshop think you care a lot about those grim statistics, from the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey. And although they know you're busy, about 60 social workers, religious leaders, neighborhood activists and others spent the day discussing new ways to bring people together to share their time and skills to benefit not only the poor, but the whole community. Take soup kitchens, for example. Dishing out food to the homeless for an hour or two a month is one way you could feel you were …