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For a decade, U.S. lawmakers have kept the federal minimum wage at a level which increasingly leaves workers unable to afford housing. That’s according to a report from the National … Continue Reading Bernie Sanders Calls Fact That Minimum Wage Worker Cannot Afford 2-Bedroom Apartment in Any U.S. State ‘A National Disgrace’
Stretches of encampments of homeless people were filmed in Los Angeles on Monday, amid reports of an increase in the number of the destitute population, which the President of the … Continue Reading Video: Homeless Camps Pop up Across Los Angeles in ‘Unprecendented Crisis’
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders arrived in Rogers on Wednesday, to support US multinational retail corporation Walmart workers’ demand for higher wages and to attend Walmart’s shareholder meeting. “Today we … Continue Reading Video: Bernie Sanders Demands Higher Wages for Walmart Employees
Dozens of young men spend their days on the banks of the Guaire river in Caracas trying to find something valuable in the waste at the bottom, as footage filmed … Continue Reading The Reality of Sanctions: Urban Mining on the Rise in Venezuela as Economy Hits Rock Bottom – Video
Amy Clair, University of Essex; Jasmine Fledderjohann, Lancaster University, and Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London Once relatively unheard of in the UK, the number of food banks has grown dramatically … Continue Reading People Who Use Food Banks Live in Substandard and Unaffordable Homes – New Study
Alexander Rubinstein, MintPress News The U.S. government is preparing to levy sanctions against officials associated with Venezuela’s food subsidy program known as CLAP, the latest in a long list of … Continue Reading U.S. Economic War on Venezuela Targets CLAP Food Program Relied on by Millions
The Mexican government will auction a Lamborghini and other luxury car brands – all seized assets from criminal gangs – as part of a so-called ‘Robin Hood’ programme to help … Continue Reading Video: Mexican Government Auctions Luxury Cars to Help Poor
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University Imagine you have US$2 trillion to spend on patching up America’s crumbling roads, levees and other infrastructure. What would you fix first? The nation’s needs … Continue Reading 3 Ways $2 Trillion for Infrastructure Can Fight Inequality Too
Henning Melber, University of Pretoria South Africans celebrate Freedom Day on April 27 every year to mark the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. A quarter of a century later, … Continue Reading Freedom Day in South Africa – a Reminder of Unfinished Business
Suzanne Wilson, University of Central Lancashire There are 200,000 children living in absolute poverty across the UK, according to the latest report by the Child Poverty Action Group. This means … Continue Reading Child Poverty is at a 20-Year High – but in one English community, children themselves are intervening
Dylan Henderson, Cardiff University and Laura Reynolds, University of Birmingham Among all the uncertainty Brexit is causing, concerns have arisen over the potential fuel it is adding to the pertinent … Continue Reading Politics: New Focus on the Foundations of the UK’s Economy Might Help Poorest Regions Post-Brexit
Alannah Tomkins, Keele University The UK’s Universal Credit programme, which aims to roll six forms of state welfare including unemployment and housing benefits into one, was launched in 2010 with … Continue Reading Why Universal Credit is Like The Victorian Workhouse
