Pandemic Threatens the World’s Poor, Compounding Their Misery
Reading Time: 5 minutes COVID-19 is just beginning its surge in the world’s poorest countries. Have policymakers underestimated its impact?
COVID-19 Hits Hardest at the Poor — No Matter Where They Live
Reading Time: 4 minutes The poor suffer disproportionately in the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nigeria, a country beset by poverty, the tragedies of the coronavirus are compounded by a fragile infrastructure, food shortages, and corruption.
From Poverty to Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes What the coronavirus teaches us about the universal consequences of inequality.
An Experiment in Decency
Reading Time: 17 minutes A DOJ investigation into the Ferguson, MO, police department revealed how municipal fines and fees trap low-income people in a cycle of poverty and punishment. It’s happening across the US — but now San Francisco is leading major reforms.
Study Shows We’re Hurtling Toward a Climate-Related Health Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes A review article in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ calls for drastic action to stop climate change-related deaths and an increase in global inequality.
Yes, America’s Schools Are Still Segregated
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed segregation in 1954, schools across the country are resegregating at an alarming rate, severely impacting students and their communities.
Bobby Kennedy’s Reaction to Seeing Hunger Up Close in America
Reading Time: 18 minutes Bobby Kennedy had seen Harlem, the South Bronx, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. But what he witnessed in the Mississippi Delta in 1967 would impact the last 14 months of his life.
Drug Testing Welfare: Giving Those in Need the Finger, Not a Helping Hand
Reading Time: 3 minutes Congress rolled back Obama era protections against suspicionless drug testing. The targets of these programs are always those less fortunate and not the people making millions off the government.
Postcard from Selma: Happy MLK Jr. Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes A look back at Selma, then and now.
Sugarcoating the Lies: A New York Times Sampler
Reading Time: 7 minutes Scrutinize one day’s helping of headlines and story summaries, read between the lines, and you begin to see why our problems never get solved.