‘Queen of Katwe’ review: Disney delivers another underdog story worthy of notice
Disney has found yet another true story demonstrating how the human spirit and determination can take one from the depths of despair to the heights of triumph. Queen of Katwe, opening September 23, 2016, tells More...
Airport workers evoke MLK, rally and march for higher wages
Airport workers rallied with their supporters and then marched to LaGuardia Airport where they will hold a civil disobedience. Airport workers around the country will hold similar actions at 10 major airports More...
Faith leadership joins in coalition to ask Congress to oppose ‘Trade Injustice’
As religious bodies and faith-based organizations, we write today to ask you to oppose fast track trade promotion authority for any trade agreement currently being negotiated. Now is the time for Congress to ensure More...
Scott Todd talks Compassion International, global poverty and his new book ‘Hope Rising’
The recent global poverty survey by Compassion International revealed some shocking news: most Americans don’t believe global poverty is improving and don’t believe it can be completely overcome. Scott More...
New Survey: Most Americans don’t think global poverty can be overcome
The war to overcome global poverty is ongoing with some pointing to progress, but Amercians appear pessimistic. Most Americans see no end in sight, according to a survey sponsored by Compassion International. Christians More...
Day in History: ‘War on Poverty’ turns 50 started under Lyndon B Johnson
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson More...
Krystal Ball on MSNBC calls for minimum income checks for all Americans to ‘end poverty’
On Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” co-host Krystal Ball suggested that the United States implement a minimum guaranteed income for every “non-incarcerated adult citizen.” This massive entitlement More...
Researchers suggest living in a poor neighborhood as an adolescent increases risk of Chlamydia as a young adult
In a recently published paper in the Journal of Urban Health, researchers from the Ohio State University suggest that living in a poor neighborhood as an adolescent is linked to an increased risk of getting the More...
US Report: More hate groups in America, Tea Party on list, Occupyiers are not
The number of hate groups in the U.S. has grown each year for the past 11 years, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 2000 the center reported that there were 602 hate groups; in 2011 More...
Collapsing the System on Purpose: The Cloward Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is More...
US poverty rate highest since 1994
The U.S. poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its More...
India: A village faces a nine-year-long power failure!
Can you imagine a power outage for nine long years? That’s exactly what this village in Pilibhit district has had to endure after its main transformer developed a snag in 2001. Pilibhit is the parliamentary More...
Dr. Weiss’s Secrets & Warnings about the economy — psst: there’s a lot of debt
Dr. Martin Weiss published these 11 staggering facts that every American needs to know — and that every investor won’t be able to succeed without … 11 startling facts that Obama and Bernanke do NOT More...
