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Friday, 14 September 2018 22:12

As Florence Makes Landfall, Poorest Once More Likely to Suffer Most From Storm's Destruction

An emergency crew rescues a woman and her dog from their flooded home during Hurricane Florence Sept. 14, 2018 in James City, North Carolina.

"These disasters drag into the light exactly who is already being thrown away," notes Naomi Klein

Published in End Racism and Discrimination
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Friday, 11 March 2016 00:00

A Federal Budget That Connects the Dots and Works for All

Children from the Head Start program enjoy a day full of fun activities at New River Trail - KW

After 20 nationally televised, occasionally entertaining, sometimes appalling debates, our presidential candidates this cycle have discussed a number of important issues: immigration policy, gun safety, health care, taxes, U.S. involvement in the Middle East, and the mounting crisis of student debt, just to name a few.

Published in The People's Budget
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:00

America “Is Moving Towards Two Societies, One White, One Black — Separate and Unequal”

America “Is Moving Towards Two Societies, One White, One Black — Separate and Unequal”

Some of you may remember the Kerner Commission, but many younger members of our audience probably will not. The Kerner Report should be required reading for policymakers and anyone trying to understand how we got to where we are now in terms of the black experience in America, the history of the ghetto and government’s responsibility to its citizens.

Published in End Mass Criminalization of Black and Brown Youth
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014 00:00

The uninsured in U.S. raise Ebola risk

The uninsured in U.S. raise Ebola risk

Fear of Ebola has been climbing steadily in the United States since Tuesday's announcement that a Liberian traveler in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, was diagnosed with the disease after having been in Texas for eight days. A month ago, a Harvard School of Public Health poll found that 39 percent of Americans thought an Ebola outbreak would come to the United States, and 26 percent felt concerned that they or a member of their family would get the disease.

Published in Expand Medicaid NOW!
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