| Jul 2, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston presented his observations on the state of international poverty to the UN Human Rights Council. The country at the center of his most recent report wasn’t a developing one — it was the United States....
| Jun 13, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyNearly seven years ago — I know, wow — the Occupy Wall Street movement began highlighting the divide between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. Since then, it’s become common knowledge that income inequality in the United States is high. But there’s more to...
| | Rights / DemocracyAre we Americans unworthy? That’s certainly the message we’re getting from our government. Over 40 percent of us are poor or low-income. How is that possible in the wealthiest country in history? “The United States is alone among developed countries in insisting that...
| May 16, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThousands of civil rights advocates, low-wage workers, and religious leaders kicked off massive protests on May 14, launching a 40-day campaign across the nation in an effort to revive Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. The Poor People’s Campaign brings...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyGenerals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work. So, meet Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson — a quiet but bloodstained commandant in General Trump’s relentless war against poverty-stricken Americans. Carson is loyally serving...
