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Tag Archives: Poverty
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South Africa’s Troublesome Race Dynamic Hurts White People Too
We should care about the plight of poor White Afrikaners, but that care should extend to all people in need. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Education / Housing / Poverty
Reaching the Growing Numbers of the Suburban Poor
The suburbs omnipresent in movies like American Beauty and television shows like Weeds don’t exist anymore. Continue reading »
Environment / Food / Technology / Commentary / Poverty
Urban Farms Might Solve the Problem of Hunger on the Gaza Strip
When I think of urban farms, I typically think of gentrifying neighborhoods in places like Austin and Brooklyn…not Gaza. Continue reading »
Business / Immigration / Law / Poverty / Technology
Former Victim of Human Trafficking Speaks Out
Though human trafficking may seem like a thing that only occurs in eastern Europe and in Asia, the United States is a common destination for human trafficking victims. Continue reading »
Segregation and Discrimination Is Alive and Well against the Roma in Slovakia
Roma kids are often taught in separate classrooms, corralled to play in a separate recess facility and are refused from eating hot lunch with the Slovakian kids in at least one school. Continue reading »
Commentary / Law / Poverty / Race
What Would Make the Police Better? If They Protected and Served Everyone Equally
The position that the LAPD and other police forces across the country is a problematic one, not least because it often gets in the way of them doing their own jobs. Continue reading »
Birth Control Access Shouldn’t Have Anything to Do with Politics
Instead of making it easier, it’s often made more difficult for women to access contraception and sexual health information Continue reading »
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Charles Ramsey Is a Hero. Don’t Let the Internet Distort It for You.
The overlap of race and class that results in the meme-ing of Charles Ramsey, of Kai and of Antoine Dodson is simply an extension of the fact that we expect people of lower classes to perform for us if they want our sympathy. Continue reading »
The Way We Talk about Public Schools Is Part of the Problem
People are always trying to find things to pinpoint the blame on when discussing the country’s failing schools, some more politically correct than others. Continue reading »
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Your Instagram Brunch Photos Could Help Combat World Hunger
There’s no denying that Instagram is filled with pictures of what people ate for brunch that day – and that can be used for a purpose. Continue reading »
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The Famine in Somalia Shouldn’t Have Happened
And it definitely didn’t need to get as bad as it did for us to pay attention. Continue reading »
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Is Haiti’s Plan to Plant 1.2 Million Trees in One Day Enough to Combat Severe Deforestation?
An estimated 30 to 40 million trees are chopped down each year for firewood and, at this point, somewhere between 90 to 98 percent of the country’s trees are gone. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Education / Housing / Poverty / Youth
The Myth of the United States’ Failing Schools
Though we are constantly hammered over the head by proclamations of students’ ineptitude compared to other countries, it seems that the picture is not nearly as clear as proponents of charter schools would like us to think. Continue reading »
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Turning Favelas from ‘City of God’ into ‘City of Humans’
As many as 100,000 drug dealers recently roamed the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading »
Education / Health / Immigration / Law / Poverty
Immigrants With Mental Disabilities Just Got the Right to Court-Appointed Lawyers When Facing Deportation. About Time.
The government’s official policy is that immigrants have no right to a taxpayer-funded lawyer if they face deportation. Continue reading »
Found: Nutritious Recipes for Less than $1.50 a Meal
As many people have detailed, it can often be easier and less expensive, especially when taking food deserts into account, to buy fast food than to buy groceries. Continue reading »
Boston Marathon and Terrorism Blog Hog
Here is a list of articles that I’ve found illuminating, informative and plain irritating. Continue reading »
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But Seriously Though, Why Does Poverty Exist?
Without an explanation for poverty’s creation, there’s no clear identifiable way to fix it – or maybe even a will to fix it. Continue reading »
Environment / Housing / Poverty / Race
This Map Shows You How Polluted Your Zip Code Is
If you live in California, that is. Continue reading »
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ICYMI: Dhaka, Bangladesh’s Garment Factory Collapse and What That Means for the Consumer
Whether or not we personally know anyone affected by the building collapse in Bangladesh, we’re all affected. Continue reading »
$5 Can Buy You a Ton of Bananas in Ethiopia and Other Lessons from This Video
The lesson of the video isn’t just that you can buy a metric ton of beer in China. Continue reading »
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Do Sponsor the Children Programs Work? Maybe.
A recent study found that, when looking at the effect of one program on children in Bolivia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, the Philippines and Uganda, children were 27 to 40 percent more likely to graduate from secondary school. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog
Here you’ll find some of our favorite blog posts that we discovered this week, posts that were so elegantly, wittily and brilliantly put that we just wanted to commend them. Continue reading »
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Kermit Gosnell: A Case for Extended Health Care Coverage for Low-Income Families
Whatever the motives for the anti-abortion movement, one thing is clear; the women who are being marginalized by this system and stigma have not been heard. Continue reading »
