Poverty
Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
August 22, 2014These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
Read moreLabor journalist blames U.S. policy for child immigrant crisis
August 18, 2014U.S. policies for decades forced kids and many of their parents to flee, because the U.S. made Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dangerous places.
Read moreMyths of capitalism: the myth of scarcity
August 14, 2014We are faced with a choice of who will pay to rebuild our infrastructure, educate our children, and transition to a green economy.
Read moreU.S. policy driving the children north
July 21, 2014The poverty and suffering of Guatemalans, and especially indigenous Guatemalans, is rooted in long term U.S. policy in the region.
Read moreU.S. trade policy linked to crisis at the border
July 9, 2014The mass migration of children from Central America has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past few weeks.
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