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Behind Flint water horror, a corrosive cynicism

February 3, 2016 By Jesse Jackson

Republican Governor Rick Snyder's men have wreaked untold economic damage on the residents of Flint on top of the threat to their health.

This week in history: Robert Clifton Weaver, first Black U.S. Cabinet member

January 19, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Weaver noted there was a great difference between the income of most African Americans and the cost of living.

Health care, housing, education top California’s legislative agenda

January 14, 2016 By Marilyn Bechtel

Gov. Brown is calling for "significant increases" for education, health care, environment, and infrastructure spending in the $123 billion 2016-17 general fund.

Gun control alone can’t curb violence

January 7, 2016 By Jesse Jackson

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.

HUD: Arrests cannot be used to deny affordable housing

January 7, 2016 By Lawrence Albright

Governmental agencies have begun tilting toward less incarceration, and more restorative justice and rehabilitation.