| Oct 11, 2023 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, we’ve got two more strong pieces on the structural causes of poverty to complement our issue from last week. First, Amy Adams riffs on Jason Aldean’s controversial country song, “Try That in a Small Town.” It’s...
| | HP SubfeaturedOver time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. “Gentle,” for example. Originally meaning good natured and kindly, it was twisted into “gentry” in the Middle Ages by very un-gentle land barons seeking a patina of refinement. Then it...
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| Oct 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m not a fan of the controversial Jason Aldean song “Try That in a Small Town,” which glorifies vigilante violence. Unlike Aldean in his Nashville mansion, my three children and I actually live in a small town in impoverished Hopkins County, Kentucky. I sleep in our...
| Oct 4, 2023 | RoundupThis week, we continue our look into structural causes of poverty, the employers who profit off it, and the workers trying to make ends meet. Shailly Gupta Barnes, a poverty expert and policy director at the Kairos Center, unpacks new poverty data and explains that...
