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Coronavirus
June 9, 2020 | Sofia Basheer
Tags: income inequality, pandemic, poverty

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, Lagos Nigeria
World
May 12, 2020 | Chidera Rosecamille Aneke
Tags: coronavirus, Nigeria, poverty

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.

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Coronavirus
May 6, 2020 | Lana Cohen
Tags: coronavirus, poverty, zoonotic diseases

From Poverty to Pandemic

Reading Time: 4 minutes What the coronavirus teaches us about the universal consequences of inequality.

Financial Justice Project
Podcast
January 13, 2020 | Peter B. Collins
Tags: Financial Justice Project, homelessness, poverty, San Francisco

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.

Ethiopia, drought
Environment
January 24, 2019 | Vanessa Nason
Tags: climate change, Health, poverty

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.

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Civil Liberties
December 20, 2018 | Lindsay Bennett
Tags: Inequality, poverty, racism, segregation

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.

Robert Kennedy, RFK
Podcast
June 6, 2018 | Jeff Schechtman
Tags: Mississippi, poverty, RFK, Robert F. Kennedy

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.

HHS, Drug Testing, Tom Price, Donald Trump
Civil Liberties
April 16, 2017 | DonkeyHotey and Klaus Marre
Tags: drug testing, poverty, welfare

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.

Marchers, Harlem, New York City
Civil Liberties
January 20, 2014 | David J. Krajicek
Tags: Alabama, civil rights, poverty

Postcard from Selma: Happy MLK Jr. Day

Reading Time: 3 minutes A look back at Selma, then and now.

Big Money, Hidden Influence, Threats to Democracy
January 16, 2012 | Russ Baker
Tags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan minerals, disinformation, Iran, Israel, lies, minerals, Netanyahu, New York Times, oil, poverty, propaganda, Public Editor, Taliban, truth, war propaganda, war with Iran

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.

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