poverty

A lawsuit currently before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could determine the fate of cash bail in the United States. Earlier this year, Chief United States District Judge Lee Rosenthal ruled that the cash bail policies and practices of Harris County, Texas, violated the...

Randi Lynn Williams: her debt, known as legal financial obligations, total more than $11,500. Photograph: Connor Sheets In Alabama, money keeps thousands of people away from the ballot box – and the state’s felon disenfranchisement policies are probably unconstitutional. Randi Lynn...

Long but interesting. Apologies if this was posted before. Watch at your leisure. 32:00-35:50 This dude is ill :lolbron: 37:40 - 39:50 Almost defunct Baltimore steel mill. That privilege/entitlement. 40:20 - 43:45 "Jesus became poor so we can be rich on Earth." - Philadelphia pastor...

Wasn't really publicized but spreading the word: March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women will converge in D.C. this weekend On September 30, 2017 Black women in all their diversity will march on the National Mall and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. to denounce the...

By David A. Ansell David A. Ansell is a professor of internal medicine, senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, and author of “The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills.” Sarai was 25 years...

Houston’s zoning has left them defenseless. Hilton Kelley has been sounding off on Facebook Live the past few days about families who evacuated their homes to escape Hurricane Harvey and are now getting eviction notices. The families live in Port Arthur, Texas, the small Gulf Coast city...

African Americans were worse off financially in 2016 than they were in 2000. The median income for an African American household was $39,490 last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. It was $41,363 in 2000. (Both figures are in 2016 dollars, so they have been adjusted...

STRUGGLING AMERICANS ONCE SOUGHT GREENER PASTURES—NOW THEY’RE STUCK By Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg | Photographs by Mark Felix for The Wall Street Journal WEST BRANCH, Mich.—When she graduated from high school, Taylor Tibbetts was a bright star in this small Northern Michigan town. She won...

Racism is fueling a national health crisis. After she lost her son, Tonda Thompson dreamed of a baby in a washing machine. She’d stuffed in dirty clothes and closed the door. The lock clicked shut. Water rushed in. Then she saw him, floating behind the glass. Frantic, she jabbed at a keypad on...

by CHANDRA THOMAS WHITFIELD FULL ARTICLE Cecelia Hayden Smith, 72, knows exactly how she wants to live out the remainder of her golden years: lounging lazily on the porch of a cozy house tucked along a quiet, treelined street in Washington, D.C. She’d greet her partner each morning with a...

This thread is created from another thread in booth. We went on a tangent in which @xCivicx believed a Renzel song was deep because it was about the hood and the plight of the average black man. @David_TheMan disputes the claim that the average black person lives in poverty because it isn't...

Alright, I'm still learning a lot about Hugo Chavez. His death was kinda suspicious to me. I don't think he naturally got cancer. Anyway:jawalrus: I have heard mixed reviews of Chavez. We all know the drugs cartels were big in Venezuela. However, what do you think of him? Some people said...

Tim Wise speaks about the flawed education system that encourages poverty. Antiracist essayist, author and activist Tim Wise delivers a keynote speech at the California Federation of Teachers 74th annual statewide convention on March 11, 2016 in San Francisco on the topic of "Using racism to...

You lose whatever job you have now all of your emergency savings is nearly depleted and McDonald's calls tomorrow saying a manager there heard you were looking for work and they are willing to have you start tomorrow full-time at minimum wage would you work there?

#TheShift :mjpls: :sas2:

Homeless people each share one thing about themselves that might surprise you by Phoenix4 · 15 hours ago

Black Homeownership Dying Where Obama Revitalized By Prashant Gopal - Sep 3, 2013 11:51 AM ET Helene Pearson’s belief in homeownership was shattered in Roseland, the mostly black Chicago neighborhood where President Barack Obama got his start as a community organizer. Pearson, who bought her...

Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans The civil rights leader laid out his vision for fighting poverty in his final book. JORDAN WEISSMANN AUG 28 2013, 5:05 PM ET One of the more under-appreciated aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is that by...

BILL DE BLASIO’S VISION POSTED BY GEORGE PACKER When it came to the most important speech of his campaign for mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio’s timing couldn’t have been worse. On May 30th, at the New School, the candidate sketched a powerful picture of the issue that he wanted to put at...