Tag: poverty
The police will keep killing us until we stop criminalizing blackness...
The murder of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police is the latest reminder that we must hold our elected officials accountable for upholding a system that devalues Black life.
Blistering U.N. report: Trump administration’s policies designed to worsen poverty &...
40 million Americans live in poverty, and 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty.
Special report: In the streets with the New Poor People’s Campaign...
Demonstrators descended on Washington Monday in the latest protest staged by the new Poor People’s Campaign, which organizers say is the most expansive wave...
Ben Carson’s redecoration of HUD is worse than you think
If we are to end poverty, the mindset that needs to change is theirs.
Six big losers in our ‘booming’ economy
The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.
This California city just arrested people for trying to feed the...
Fines and jail terms cannot solve homelessness.
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
People act where US fails on climate
If we are to have a livable future, we must act rapidly.
Extreme poverty cut in half? Only in the minds of the...
The median wealth of the world's adults is $2,222, down from $3,248 at the end of 2007.
Yes, half of Americans are in or near poverty: Here’s more...
Too many Americans have been cheated out of opportunities to share in our nation's prosperity.
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Third police officer sentenced to prison for framing black males
“These three police officers from Biscayne Park disgraced themselves and damaged the public’s trust in law enforcement."
Most devastating of all: Mueller’s indictment of Trump’s character
How many of Trump’s followers or those who might otherwise be tempted to vote for him in 2020 will recoil from this moral squalor?
Judge determines Flint residents can sue US government for water crisis
“The EPA was well aware that the Flint River was highly corrosive and posed a significant danger of lead leaching” into residents’ homes.
Solidarity with Venezuela now! Protect the embassy
The Collective feels a responsibility to hold our government to a standard of respecting the rule of law as well as a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
AFRICOM calls for my ‘elimination’
Specifically, what if an article of mine on the U.S. military appears somewhere in our media world and that military refuses to notice? Does it have an impact?
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