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As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)
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)
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)
Long plagued by poverty and desperation, Stockton, Calif., is testing universal basic income as a means of improving the lives of its people. (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)
Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives... (2018)
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)
Conventional wisdom says artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs. But it can also improve education and employment. But it’s time we start t... (2018)
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)
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
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)
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)
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)
Would a universal basic income be a "calamity"? Research suggests the opposite. "This summer, the Wall Street Journal published an article claim... (2017)
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)
Poverty in Japan hides in plain sight. The cleanliness and order of Japan are made possible by great numbers of the working poor. (2017)
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)
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)
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)
Miami Herald, 2017: "the CEO of Grameen America announced Monday evening that the micro-lending organization for women would be bringing its servic... (2017)
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)
Together 18 Miami leaders from 5 verticals - Education /Technology /Enterprises /City /People - shared their initiatives and projects related to th... (2018)
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)
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)
The Rio you won’t see at the Olympics Watch part 1, "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" (2018)
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)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
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)
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)