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Why Unemployment Has Hit Black Households the Hardest

Emily Badger The Atlantic Cities
The average black household that experienced unemployment had zero cash to fall back on. The history of our latest economic recession is full of stories of families who had to cash out their retirement accounts or savings for a child's education to make regular payments on rent and bills. But what about families that didn't even have those options?

50,000 Gather in Tunisia to Plan People-Powered Economy

Signe Predmore and Medea Benjamin Portside
It came at a time when the world has been rocked by grassroots uprisings in the Arab world, but also increasing mobilizations to counter the climate crisis, and massive economic protests from southern Europe to “Occupy” groups in the United States to student movements from Quebec to Chile.