The Price of Unpaid Activism The Price of Unpaid Activism
Have advocacy and organizing become careers for the well-educated?
Mar 4, 2022 / StudentNation / Esther Eriksson von allmen
“Culture of Poverty” Is a Made-Up Concept “Culture of Poverty” Is a Made-Up Concept
And yet Joe Manchin is attempting to reanimate its long-discredited corpse.
Mar 2, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
We Need to Do More Than “Protect ‘Roe’” We Need to Do More Than “Protect ‘Roe’”
We have to address the structural barriers that prevent people from accessing their right to an abortion, including systemic poverty and racism.
Feb 24, 2022 / Katrina Kimport
The Bold New Campaign to “End Poverty in California” The Bold New Campaign to “End Poverty in California”
Poverty isn’t an individual choice—it’s a collective one. And just as we choose to perpetuate it, we can choose to abolish it.
Feb 23, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
America’s Mayors Should Take Marion Barry as a Model. Seriously. America’s Mayors Should Take Marion Barry as a Model. Seriously.
The former D.C. mayor’s pioneering efforts to provide jobs, affordable housing, and food security deserve to be remembered long after the jokes about his drug use have grown stale.
Feb 14, 2022 / Christina M. Greer
Nina Turner Is Still Mad As Hell, and Running for Congress (Again) Nina Turner Is Still Mad As Hell, and Running for Congress (Again)
If you thought the former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate was going to quietly fade into the background after her primary loss last year, think again.
Feb 11, 2022 / A. Bryan Johnson
California Needs to Get Serious About Homelessness California Needs to Get Serious About Homelessness
The state has failed to provide housing to the formerly incarcerated and other vulnerable people.
Feb 11, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky
As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate
Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.
Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes
The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable Housing The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable Housing
As a pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay area, I have seen how housing insecurity can damage the mental and physical health of kids.
Jan 31, 2022 / Christine Ma