It is time to banish the idea that forced labor and sweatshop exploitation are problems of bygone eras or distant countries. These conditions exist within America’s borders.
Author: WHES
Summertime hunger spike: There simply aren’t enough programs available to serve all the children who need them
Summertime can be a carefree, relaxing season filled with cookouts, backyard picnics, and trips to the ice cream truck.
As the world’s worst outbreak of cholera continues to ravage Haiti, international donors have averted their gaze
AS THE WORLD’S worst outbreak of cholera continues to ravage Haiti, international donors have averted their gaze.
20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms
On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents.
The hard facts behind youth crime (and what you can do about it)
For the past year, I worked at a D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) juvenile detention facility, as part of my master’s degree program in social work at Catholic University.
The 2012 Food Assistance Convention–is a promise still a promise?
n late April 2012, the long-anticipated new Food Assistance Convention (FAC) text was finally agreed upon.
The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at all Costs
Last year a Newsweek article made public President Obama’s reading list. Its message was promising: A third of the books focused on former presidencies. Yet according to “The Emergency State,” David C. Unger’s ambitious and valuable overview of 20th-century presidents and national security, Obama has unfortunately picked up the bad habits of his predecessors.
Analysis of 2012 G8 Summit on Food Security: A step forward, a step back, and a very big question
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Let’s resist herbicide-resistant crops
A Pioneer seed saleswoman introduced the first genetically modified crop to my central Missouri county in the winter of 1996 at a University Extension Soils and Crop Council meeting.
Plutocracy, paralysis, perplexity
Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the
