Poverty
Impoverished scavengers fight our trash problem, but they’re denied vaccines
April 1, 2021The work is dangerous, and injuries are common, so governments have an incentive to not recognize them or provide benefits like health care.
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Oakland, Marin County to launch pilot programs for guaranteed income
March 26, 2021“The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said, “it is a systems failure.”
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For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
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To ‘Build Back Better,’ listen to those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19
February 25, 2021Though often ignored, communities know best what ails them.
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Republican Senate should get off its ass and help hurting people
December 18, 2020Almost 14 million jobless people will lose their aid checks the day after Christmas. 12 million could be evicted. And for 310,000 people there will be no aid at all, because they are dead.
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