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  • Residents looting a warehouse in Nigeria
    Pavan Kulkarni
    Looting of Food Grains Continues in Nigeria as Almost Half its Population Suffers Hunger
    17 Apr 2024
    President Bola Tinubu’s lifting of fuel subsidies and liberalization of currency trade has pleased the IMF and increased hunger in Africa’s most populous country.
  • Javonte Alexander (left) and Basaime Spate (right), researchers at Center for Justice Innovation.
    Shannon Chaffers
    Driven By Fear: Why Some Brooklyn Youth Carry Guns
    25 Oct 2023
    Tropes about violent Black youth prevail but efforts to analyze the causes of firearm use are rarely seen.
  • The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
    Belinda Davis
    The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
    29 Jul 2020
    With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight.
  • By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
    Paul Buchheit
    By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
    09 Jan 2019
    If measured by 1960s yardsticks, today’s US poverty rates are three times higher than officially recognized.
  • Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful
    Kenneth Surin
    Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful
    14 Feb 2018
    “Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.”
  • poverty in the US
    Bill Quigley
    Social Justice Quiz 2017: Children – Ten Questions
    17 Aug 2017
    Spoiler alert for quiz-takers: The U.S. ranks pitifully low in maintaining the health and welfare of its children when compared with most of the richer countries of the world.
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