Addressing Opportunity: The Landscape of Inequality
This interactive art exhibit explores how the movement of affluent people to a few wealthy zip codes nationally affects income inequality.
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Call for Contributors: “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
Lessons from La Causa: Leadership, Spirituality and Geographies of Injustice in an Era of Civil Rights
While the impact of the United Farm Workers is perhaps not as strongly felt in the twenty-first century as it might be, its pedagogical relevance makes it perhaps more significant now than ever.
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.
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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