In news that drew statements of surprise from liberal news outlets, a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau announced last week that child poverty had more than doubled between 2021 to 2022, going from a rate of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022. That means that at least...
On August 31, a fast-moving blaze spread through a formerly abandoned five-story building in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Within minutes, dozens of people were trapped in and above the flames. Some managed to escape the inferno with only burns and broken...
The trial over the shooting of a motorist by a teenage squeegee worker in Baltimore has come to an end. A year after the shooting the jury reached the verdict that the teenager, tried as an adult, was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the use of a firearm in a crime,...
A recent report provides us with yet another example of the inhumanity of the capitalist political-economic system that shapes our world. San Francisco recently released data for 2021 that found that 61,473 homes sat empty and unused while at least 4,000 people sleep...
An investigation by Propublica published in Dec. 2021 reported that over $5.2 billion in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is being hoarded by some states and not being distributed to people in need. At the same time the states withheld these funds,...
