Lindsay Hendrix fights myths to tackle hunger
We work to help ensure that folks who may not have enough to eat get the food they need.
Category: September 2017
Dyeing Poverty: Thoughts on Poverty and Race
From the Jim Crow era to the present day, discrimination has obstructed equal access in attaining greater wealth and upward mobility for marginalized people.
Food Insecurity & the Revolutionary Democracy of Urban Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Early 21st Century
Top-down responses to food insecurity must be paired with strategies creating self-sustaining local food economies that lessen dependency on the ebbs and flows of the modern corporately controlled food system.
Review: A Time of Upheaval, Unit 8 of Joyce Appleby’s The American Vision
Perhaps not surprising, The American Vision is not one to focus on government malfeasance. The Vietnam War chapter in particular is open to this criticism.
On Loneliness and the Reason Why: Experiences as a Native Academic
Academic life, as a Native woman, is realizing that your physical presence is unsettling to those in power, because your body and existence are a reminder of a horrific history they’d like to forget.
Appalachian Voices’ “Solarize Wise” Program: Energy Savings and Job Creation Appalachia
To protect and improve quality of life, Appalachian Voices launched Solarize Wise, a Southwestern Virginia program that is working to bring affordable solar energy to the region.
Wealth Abounds: Poverty in Native America
The U.S. government, through centuries of policy and practice, established and maintained Indian poverty.
White Poor, Black Poor: Untangling Structure and Culture
While the debate about the underlying causes of poverty is not new, the racial and class antagonisms of the 2016 election provide an opportunity to search for new answers to this old problem.
Review: A Generation of Sociopaths
The social safety-net afforded white, middle class boomers access to relative comfort. However, by middle and old age, boomers began supporting hard right-wing politicians such as Ronald Reagan, who made it their goal to destroy the welfare system that had bolstered them to middle-class status.
Gendering Poverty in Labor Legislation in Argentina, 1900-1930
Gender-specific labor laws largely enforced the assignment of women to lower paying activities in the factory and longer hours outside the factory. This had the effect of restricting their mobility and condemning them to poverty.
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