As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes
With the climate crisis now escalating, and the federal government withdrawing, help from local muscle and outside charities is about all the disaster relief that Indian Country can expect for the foreseeable future.
Killing as a government service
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.
Lawmakers are finally starting to pay attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered...
Lawmakers are moving to pass legislation that would create clearer systems of data collection and response in cases of MMIW.
For-profit company makes $750 per day, per immigrant child yet maintains deplorable conditions
For $750 a day a child could stay in a suite at Trump's Washington hotel.
U.S. suicide rates soar with Indigenous Women particularly vulnerable
U.S. suicide rates have reached the highest level since World War II.
Women approaching retirement face financial insecurity over healthcare and drug costs
"Those results underscore the reality of an uneven playing field for women in the American economy and the economic opportunity cost after years as mothers and caregivers and not wage-earners."
Juneteenth 2019: The US must repair historic and current racism
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave...
Federal minimum wage stagnant for 3,615 days, a ‘shameful’ period in history
"I've been criticized for this so let me say it again: the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour."
Seattle ends crucial indigenous youth program
Every youth that regularly attended Clear Sky graduated from high school, yet the district wants to end the program anyway.
Chicago police have a serious problem with pointing guns at children
Police in Chicago are using excessive force, leaving children and families traumatized.