(Best MSW Programs) – What if I told you you were more likely to live in poverty living in the suburbs. Suburbs: 16.5 Million Americans live under the poverty line [2]Cities: 13.5 Million Americans live under the poverty line And that poverty is expanding faster in the suburbs than anywhere else. Increase since 2000:Suburban: 139%Urban: […]
30 September 2014 (Talking Stick TV) – Talk by Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, given 28 September 2014 at Town Hall in Seattle. TalkingStickTV – Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,financial collapse,corruption
By Olivia Brindley 9 June 2014 (Distractify) – It’s no secret that the city of Detroit is not the thriving industrial city that it once was, but as things decay over time, it’s sometimes hard to notice just how drastic some of the changes have been. Redditor Scarbane has compiled a startling collection of images […]
By Robert Frank 21 Aug 2014 (CNBC) – The gap between the wealthiest and the poorest Americans widened over the past decade, according to a new report from the Census Bureau. It also grew between younger and older families. The report on household net worth showed that median net worth for the country as a […]
By Rose Hackman 17 August 2014 (theguardian.com) – Detroit police chief James Craig – nicknamed “Hollywood” for his years spent in the LAPD and his seeming love of being in front of the camera – has repeatedly called on “good” and “law-abiding” Detroiters to arm themselves against criminals in the city. His words have not […]
By Josh Sanburn2 August 2014 (TIME) – The suburbs aren’t the middle-class haven many imagine them to be as new numbers show 16.5 million suburban Americans are living beneath the poverty line. Colorado Springs is often included on lists of the best places to live in America thanks to its 250 days of sun a […]
By Alana Semuels16 July 2014 DETROIT (Los Angeles Times) – In the year since this city filed for bankruptcy, becoming the largest municipality ever to do so, leaders have adopted a more optimistic tone about the future, pledging to fix streetlights and attract new residents and jobs.. But Eric Byrd isn’t buying it. “No change […]
By Alemayehu Bishaw27 June 2014 (census.gov) – The Changes in Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 2000 to 2010 report [pdf] largely compares Census 2000 poverty estimates with those based on the 2008–2012 5-year American Community Survey (ACS). As 2010 represents the midpoint of this period, for convenience the remainder of this report refers to these 2008–2012 […]
By Lori Montgomery 24 June 2014 NAGS HEAD, N.C. – The dangers of climate change were revealed to Willo Kelly in a government conference room in the summer of 2011. By the end of the century, state officials said, the ocean would be 39 inches higher and her home on the Outer Banks would be […]
By John Nelson, chairman of Lloyd’s of London 11 May 2014 (theguardian.com) – There is no doubt the climate is changing. Each of the past three decades has been warmer than the previous one, and the vast majority of scientific evidence points to this being caused by mankind’s reliance on carbon-based fossil fuels. While understanding […]
