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... Without Poverty , Yunus Muhammad , Public Affairs , 2008 Out of Poverty , Polak Paul , Barrett Koehler 2008 Constantine’s Sword , A film by Jacoby Oren Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 RECOMMENDS...

... A People’s History of Poverty in America , Pimpare Stephen , New Press , 2008 Saving Jesus from the Church , Meyers Robin R. , HarperOne , 2009 The Song of the Distant Dove , Scheindlin Raymond P. , Oxford University Press , 2007 A Palestinian...

... the richest country on the face of the earth, and that the Bible declares that from the one to whomD much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded (Luke 12:48). Only four-tenths of 1 percent of our federal budget is presently allotted to address the poverty needs...

...Mark I. Wallace Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Educational Genocide, Eco-Violence, and Poverty Pimping: The Cry of Faith in Urban America Today by Mark I. Wallace S AN EDUCATOR AND A CHRISTIA N, I NOW W ORK IN THE CITY OF Chester...

...SVI SHAPIRO For the past thirty years we’ve frequently run articles about the relationship between our education system and the distortions in consciousness of Americans as reflected in our politics, economy, wars, poverty, and hatreds of various ‘demeaned others’ of society. In this special...

...Creative Commons/chicagogeek “My Woodlawn-Roseland neighborhood has suffered a re-entrenchment of race-based poverty over the last two decades,” Sundquist writes. Here, a woman carries a child past the half-demolished remains of an old department store in Roseland. ...

... very “progressive” elites that championed a war against global shift of econom ic, financial, political and poverty are now reacting with alarm because they see the (ultimately) military power from the United growth in third-world wealth as coming...

...Most residents of the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, like those pictured here, earn less than one dollar per day. Eliminating $1.25-a-day poverty could require just 0.2 percent of global income, Makwana writes. ...

... globally, such as global warming, global health, or global poverty. ML: Given the current realities of the United States, how do you imagine that we could get to a place where increasing democracy would be possible...

... on poverty published during the Reagan years. Wilson effectively challenges prevailing conservative arguments that discount the need for major new government initiatives. . .. A self-described “social democrat,” Wilson nevertheless adopts some of the assumptions and vocabulary of his conservative opponents...

... poverty. Presently, our nation assigns less than four-tenths of one percent of our federal budg­ et to address the poverty needs of the Third World. Those organizations, and especially the United Nations...

... sidewalk if you are a young person of color, im/migrant, indigenous person in diaspora seeking day labor, or someone who “looks homeless.” All of these are what I call “crimes of poverty”: overtly raced and classed “crimes” pinned on poor people and people of color, resulting in our ongoing police...

... reports, China today tops the United States in the number of its billionaires. As for capitalism, it is notorious for its misdistribution of resources to those on top, a problem that has increased in recent years when the heads of U.S. companies earn over 300 times what workers do. Poverty also persists...

...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 A t the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a full-time worker makes only $15,080 in a year — well below the poverty line for a family of three. So it’s nothing but good news that President Obama signaled in December 2013 his support...

... it originated. So instead of challenging the accumulation of wealth, Buddhism critiques the social structures that perpetuate poverty and the unwholesome states of mind that contribute to the suffering of self and others. This is admirable enough, but still leaves quite a bit for Buddhist socialists...

... of socialism: the former Soviet and China.Union Both turned out to Middle poverty. abject in lived castes lower while gold and of silver tributes demanded...