Nowhere To Run
Tom Dispatch
Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?
Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?
Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?
Smart Ass Cripple: How SSI Keeps People Poor
The Progressive
Current rules for SSI recipients make it difficult to get financial help from friends and family.
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How the War on Poverty Stalled
The New Republic
The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81
ACLU Magazine
The I-81 project, completed in 1968—and Syracuse remains one of the most segregated cities in the country, with the highest concentration of poverty among communities of color, and the highest rates of lead poisoning in children. This was by design.
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Union and Queer
The American Prospect
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.
Momentum for New and Expanded State Child Tax Credits, Earned Income Tax Credits Continued in 2023
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
These two efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children in the near and long term and are important tools for advancing equity.
Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women
Portside
Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike to Limit AI is for You and Me - We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard as Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration, the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; War on Women - Russia Says Give Birth Early;
Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley
The Nation
California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.
Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. As Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber
Democracy Now!
Democratic Congressmembers Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee have introduced a resolution called the Third Reconstruction, to end poverty in the United States by addressing systemic racism, economic and public health inequity, militarism, other issues.
Returning to Laurel
The Progressive
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.
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