Category: Poverty
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries

The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality
The stifling inequality engendered by capitalism takes lives, sometimes quickly and often slowly. With encampment evictions, the state punishes those being suffocated for gasping to breathe
Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions

Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual
“It’s important to remember that hunger does not always happen because of natural disasters. It is often the result of things that we do to each other deliberately.”
Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed

Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation
A critical look at the terrifying rise in the control of ‘surplus’ populations
“We’re now seeing families who had an emergency fund but it’s gone and they’re at the end of their rope,” said one Texas food bank director.