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A collection of articles and videos about Brazil with a focus on Culture, Race, and Inequality Issues
Brazil - Inequality, Poverty, Hunger Issues
Brazil - Property Rights, Inequality, Land Rights, Agriculture and Development issues
Defining the problem, and looking at possible solutions to the high price of university education
UBI universal basic income ideas and proposals
a collection of articles looking at Inequality in K-12 Education and the “Achievement Gap”

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Hunger in Brazil - An old scourge returns - The Economist

As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)


Article

Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought - The Economist

More light, less clarity THOUGH SHE lives in one of the world’s poorest countries, Drocella Yandereye is a picture of upward mobility. Her small... (2019)


Article

Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest - Poverty in California -- The Economist

THE LOS ANGELES regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hu... (2018)


Article

Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try - The New York Times

Long plagued by poverty and desperation, Stockton, Calif., is testing universal basic income as a means of improving the lives of its people. (2018)


Article

Contrary to reports, the Basic Income Experiment in Finland will continue until the end of 2018

There have been incorrect reports in the media about the Finnish experimental study on a Universal Basic Income. The experiment will run until the ... (2018)


Article

The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem - Opinion | The New York Times

Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives... (2018)


Article

Inside Ontario’s Big, Bold Basic Income Experiment | Fast Company

Alana Baltzer bought her first new winter coat recently. She’s eating vegetables and fruit now instead of junk food. And, because she’s not worryin... (2018)


Article

A.I. and Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty - The New York Times

Conventional wisdom says artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs. But it can also improve education and employment. But it’s time we start t... (2018)


Article

Workers in southern Europe are stuck in lousy jobs - The tempest

EMA ZELIKOVITCH, a 24-year-old philosophy graduate in Madrid, takes a deep breath before listing the jobs she has held over the past few years. Whi... (2017)


Article

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them?

For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)


Article

Universal basic income is here—it just looks different from what you expected

The pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of the hands of Silicon Valley tech bros—and brought it to the people. (2021)


Article

Jeff Bezos launches $2 billion fund to finance preschools and help homeless families – TechCrunch

In a tweet this morning, Amazon founder (and the world’s richest man) Jeff Bezos announced that he and his wife were creating a $2 billion fund to ... (2018)


Article

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge

The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, ... (2018)


Article

The Wisdom of a Universal Basic Income

Would a universal basic income be a "calamity"? Research suggests the opposite. "This summer, the Wall Street Journal published an article claim... (2017)


Article

Is universal basic income a good solution for the future?

Should the concept of wages be separated from the concept of labor? How about in the future, when we have no choice? Join the discussion. (2018)


Article

Poverty in Japan

Poverty in Japan hides in plain sight. The cleanliness and order of Japan are made possible by great numbers of the working poor. (2017)


Article

Living on the edge: São Paulo’s inequality mapped

Cities | The Guardian | Life in South America’s largest metropolis is anything but uniform – the city’s core and its periphery are worlds apart ... (2017)


Article

The end of the housing supply debate (maybe)

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices. Slowly, the rhetorical battle is being won, as affordable ho... (2017)


Article

Poverty and the High cost of College

The California Sunday Magazine, 2017: "The College Try: Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But the... (2017)


Article

Grameen America will open micro-lending branch in Miami

Miami Herald, 2017: "the CEO of Grameen America announced Monday evening that the micro-lending organization for women would be bringing its servic... (2017)


Article

Miami: Amid economic recovery, numbers of working poor are growing, United Way report shows

Miami Herald, 2017: "About six out of 10 Miami-Dade County residents are struggling to pay for the basic necessities of food, housing, transportati... (2017)


Video

#SDGsInMiami

Together 18 Miami leaders from 5 verticals - Education /Technology /Enterprises /City /People - shared their initiatives and projects related to th... (2018)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Video

Bill Gates on Factfulness

Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)


Video

Inside Rio’s favelas, the city's neglected neighborhoods - Vox

The Rio you won’t see at the Olympics Watch part 1, "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" (2018)


Video

Basic income, explained

Vox, Published on Nov 14, 2014 We know how to end poverty. So why don't we? Read more about the simplest plan to end poverty, a universal basic ... (2018)


Podcast

How Venezuela Struck It Poor – Foreign Policy (with audio track)

The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)


Podcast

Grit Happens with Crisis Text Line's Nancy Lublin

Masters of Scale podcast, 2017: “#7 Grit Happens with Crisis Text Line's Nancy Lublin. To succeed, entrepreneurs need a good idea, timing, money, ... (2017)


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Poverty, and the cost of college

The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)


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