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Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting
For workers in the 10th, 20th and 50th percentiles, median hourly wages haven't grown much at all since the early 1970s. ...
Corn for food, not fuel
IT is not often that a stroke of a pen can quickly undo the ravages of nature, but federal regulators now have an opportunity to do just that. Americans’ food budgets will be hit hard by the ongoing Midwestern drought, the worst since 1956. Food bills will rise and many farmers will go bust....
Poverty in America: Why can’t we end it?
RONALD REAGAN famously said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — now counted as poor, it’s tempting to think he may have been right....
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Please, don’t send food: A new study suggests that food aid could actually prolong conflict rather than resolve it
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Forced labor on American shores
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....
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. ...
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