Being in debt obliges people to work more and more, no matter how precarious the conditions. Debt, in other words, produces obedience, and it affects women differently to men.
Untreated disease, violence, exposure, overdoses and car strikes are all added hazards of living on the streets. The number of Americans dying while homeless has surged dramatically in the past five years.
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Neuroscientist Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study of how family income changes children's cognitive, emotional and brain development. "The brain is not destiny," Noble says. Article with new study results here.
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’ The climate crisis threatens to undo the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction...
Kidnappings of 16 Americans and a Canadian in Port-au-Prince come as hundreds of local residents face similar targeting, with at least 628 abductions so far this year
The Battle of Blair Mountain saw thousands of miners battling cops’ machine guns—and enduring aerial bombardment. Yet today hardly anyone remembers a thing about it.
The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.
Reservation Dogs is a surreal mashup of hard-edged cynicism and deep longing, one that has a kinship with other stories about marginalized people struggling in the shadow of white folks.
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