Poverty

Homeless youth need support now more than ever

September 8, 2014 By Frank McAlpin

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act,, which has provided funding for services to youth experiencing homelessness across the nation.

Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families

August 25, 2014 By Emile Schepers

"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".

Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment

August 22, 2014 By Emile Schepers

These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.

Labor journalist blames U.S. policy for child immigrant crisis

August 18, 2014 By PAI

U.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.

Myths of capitalism: the myth of scarcity

August 14, 2014 By Scott Hiley

We are faced with a choice of who will pay to rebuild our infrastructure, educate our children, and transition to a green economy.