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Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Child trafficking on the rise. The Straits Times (Singapore). 9/01/2009.
Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.
The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)
Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Age Stratification. S Rowan Wolf. 9/2005.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.
Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
France's 'boys will be boys' mentality challenges gender equality
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here
Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
Out-of-wedlock births hit record high. Jessica Ravitz. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Child trafficking on the rise. The Straits Times (Singapore). 9/01/2009.
Saving Girls' Self Esteem. Ruth Conniff. The Progressive. 9/02/2009.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
Materialism on the Playground: Study Shows Power of Consumption Starts Early. Misty Harris. Montreal Gazette, 7/29/2009.
Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.
More higher-income families are home schooling their children. Greg Toppo. USA Today. 6/02/2009.
The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Age Stratification. S Rowan Wolf. 9/2005.
Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.
Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.
Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.
Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.
HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)
The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here
3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.
3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.
GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.
STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Materialism on the Playground: Study Shows Power of Consumption Starts Early. Misty Harris. Montreal Gazette, 7/29/2009.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.
As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006
Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.
Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.
Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.
Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.
Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.
The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.
A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.
Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.
Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.
Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.
Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.
Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League
World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.
STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original
Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts. Solomon Moore. NY Times. 9/13/2008.
Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.
New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.
Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.
Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.
Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.
Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.
Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
France's 'boys will be boys' mentality challenges gender equality
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Oil Spills, Coal Disasters, Immigration Hysteria: Unlearned Lessons from 1924. Jeff Biggers. AlterNet. 6/02/2010.
Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.
Indian eunuchs given separate IDs. BBC. 11/13/2009.
Out-of-wedlock births hit record high. Jessica Ravitz. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Saving Girls' Self Esteem. Ruth Conniff. The Progressive. 9/02/2009.
Materialism on the Playground: Study Shows Power of Consumption Starts Early. Misty Harris. Montreal Gazette, 7/29/2009.
Facial expressions 'not global. Judith Burns. BBC. 8/14/2009.
Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.
Why XX must think like XY to earn more K. Marilyn Davidson. BBC. 5/14/2009.
When is inequality unfair?. Sunder Katwala. Guardian/UK. 6/23/2009.
A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.
Colombia Indians face down violence. Chris Kraul. LA Times, 1/11/2009.
After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.
Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' . Mike Lanchin. BBC, 10/22/2008. The practice of being an honorary man.
Should the internet game Muslim Massacre be banned?. Jenny Percival, Guardian. 9/11/2008.
Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.
The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.
Borrow a Muslim? A 'living library' to prick stereotypes. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. 6/ 04/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.
James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.
In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.
How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.
Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.
The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Now showing: Map that gave America its name. Frank Greve. McClatchy. 2/26/2008.
Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.
Map that gave America its name. The original map of the Americas.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
Welcome To The New Company Town. Jerry Unseem & Ann Harrington. Fortune 01/10/2000, Vol. 141, Issue 1.
Work complaints hang over plant. Brent Hunsberger and Gosia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.
3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
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National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose. Adrian Appel. Inter Press Service. 7/09/2010.
World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.
Feds slam Texas factory over discrimination claims. CNN. 4/15/2010.
GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.
Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.
10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
What 8.5 Percent Looks Like. NPR. 4/03/2009.
Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws. Eric Lichtblau. NY Times. 8/08/2009.
Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents. Art Levine. AlterNet. 9/03/2009.
Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.
Africa goes hardcore. Tim Samuels. Guardian/UK. 8/30/09.
State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.
Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.
Why XX must think like XY to earn more K. Marilyn Davidson. BBC. 5/14/2009.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org
Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.
Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.
$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Low-Skilled Workers Struggle Amid More Competition and Fewer Openings. Chris Jenklins. Washington Post. 12/20/2008.
As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006
Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)
Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)
Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.
Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.
Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.
Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.
Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.
Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.
Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.
A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.
Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.
Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.
Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.
Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.
Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.
Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.
Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.
US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.
Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
More higher-income families are home schooling their children. Greg Toppo. USA Today. 6/02/2009.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.
Borrow a Muslim? A 'living library' to prick stereotypes. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. 6/ 04/2008.
Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds. Anthea Lipsett. Guardian/UK. 5/30/2008.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.
Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds. Shankar Vedantan. Washington Post. 1/20/2008
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.
The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.
Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.
Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.
Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.
In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA). Timothy Gutowski et al. IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment. 5/2008. Research study on life style effects on global warming emissions.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.
Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.
Africa goes hardcore. Tim Samuels. Guardian/UK. 8/30/09.
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.
Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.
Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.
Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.
Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.
Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.
Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)
The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)
African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.
Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes
Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon
Hate Crimes and Statistics from the FBI.
Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League
Oil Spills, Coal Disasters, Immigration Hysteria: Unlearned Lessons from 1924. Jeff Biggers. AlterNet. 6/02/2010.
Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws. Eric Lichtblau. NY Times. 8/08/2009.
Child trafficking on the rise. The Straits Times (Singapore). 9/01/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
Colombia Indians face down violence. Chris Kraul. LA Times, 1/11/2009.
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.
Should the internet game Muslim Massacre be banned?. Jenny Percival, Guardian. 9/11/2008.
The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.
Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.
We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.
Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.
James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.
African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.
Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.
The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.
Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
The Hidden Health Toll of Race. Ryan Blitstein. Miller-McCune. 7/11/2009.
When someone is raised female and the genes say XY. Seth Borenstein. AP. 9/11/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.
Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.
Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.
Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.
Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress. Tara Parker-Pope. NY Times. 10/13/2008,
Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.
Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.
Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill. Michelle Chen. In These Times. 7/09/2008.
Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.
Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.
Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.
HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)
The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.
Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
>HUD Homeless Resource Exchange
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.
Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
Can You Tell Someone's Race By Looking at Them? Interactive test
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.
Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.
Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.
Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.
Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
White History 101. Gary Younge, The Nation. 2/15/07.
Work complaints hang over plant. Brent Hunsberger and Gosia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Feds slam Texas factory over discrimination claims. CNN. 4/15/2010.
Crowd Behavior. A Richmond, California high school student is gang raped in front of observers and no one called for help. The video below is from CNN on 10/29/09. The video is also available here.
The Hidden Health Toll of Race. Ryan Blitstein. Miller-McCune. 7/11/2009.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland
State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.
The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City
Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Jim Crow in the North. Lewis Steele. In These Times. 1/08/2009.
Gap in what we say vs. what we do about racism. AP. 1/10/2009.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.
White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.
Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.
Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.
Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.
Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.
S Africa Chinese 'become black'. BBC. 6/18/2008.
Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill. Michelle Chen. In These Times. 7/09/2008.
New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.
Race and Extreme Inequality. Dedrick Muhammad. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.
James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
Japan's Ainu hope new identity leads to more rights. Takehiko Kambayashi. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Kevin Merida, Wa. Post. 5/13/2008.
Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.
Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.
New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.
Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race. Mireya Navarro. NY Times. 3/31/2008.
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.
The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.
US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.
Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.
Can You Tell Someone's Race By Looking at Them? Interactive test
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds. Shankar Vedantan. Washington Post. 1/20/2008
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
>HUD Homeless Resource Exchange
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.
The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.
Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.
One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City
Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.
What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.
$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.
Learning from Concentrated Poverty in America: A Synthesis of Themes from the Case Studies. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. Full report.
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case studies from communities across the U.S.. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. (original) Synthesis of Themes
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)
Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.
International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development UN
Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
Contextual Evidence of Gender Discrimination: The Ascendance of "Social Frameworks". Monahan, Walker, and Mitchell. University of Virginia Law School: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. 2008. Paper 90. (Also available here). PDF 35 pages.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
>HUD Homeless Resource Exchange
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.
Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.
The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.
One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City
What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.
Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.
Learning from Concentrated Poverty in America: A Synthesis of Themes from the Case Studies. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. Full report.
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case studies from communities across the U.S.. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. (original) Synthesis of Themes
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress. Tara Parker-Pope. NY Times. 10/13/2008,
Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA). Timothy Gutowski et al. IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment. 5/2008. Research study on life style effects on global warming emissions.
International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development UN
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
Oil Spills, Coal Disasters, Immigration Hysteria: Unlearned Lessons from 1924. Jeff Biggers. AlterNet. 6/02/2010.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Work complaints hang over plant. Brent Hunsberger and Gosia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
Hate Crimes and Statistics from the FBI.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.
Colombia Indians face down violence. Chris Kraul. LA Times, 1/11/2009.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Work complaints hang over plant. Brent Hunsberger and Gosia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
Hate Crimes and Statistics from the FBI.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
France's 'boys will be boys' mentality challenges gender equality
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
Contextual Evidence of Gender Discrimination: The Ascendance of "Social Frameworks". Monahan, Walker, and Mitchell. University of Virginia Law School: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. 2008. Paper 90. (Also available here). PDF 35 pages.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
Indian eunuchs given separate IDs. BBC. 11/13/2009.
Crowd Behavior. A Richmond, California high school student is gang raped in front of observers and no one called for help. The video below is from CNN on 10/29/09. The video is also available here.
Out-of-wedlock births hit record high. Jessica Ravitz. CNN. 4/08/2009.
Saving Girls' Self Esteem. Ruth Conniff. The Progressive. 9/02/2009.
When someone is raised female and the genes say XY. Seth Borenstein. AP. 9/11/2009.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
Africa goes hardcore. Tim Samuels. Guardian/UK. 8/30/09.
Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.
High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.
Why XX must think like XY to earn more K. Marilyn Davidson. BBC. 5/14/2009.
More higher-income families are home schooling their children. Greg Toppo. USA Today. 6/02/2009.
A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.
Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.
No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.
Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.
Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.
Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' . Mike Lanchin. BBC, 10/22/2008. The practice of being an honorary man.
Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress. Tara Parker-Pope. NY Times. 10/13/2008,
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.
Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.
More Women May Retire Poor. Candice Choi. ABC News. 7/09/2008.
New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.
Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.
Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.
Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.
How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.
Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds. Anthea Lipsett. Guardian/UK. 5/30/2008.
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.
African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.
The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.
Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective
Women face bias worldwide - UN. BBC. 4/05/2008.
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
When Girls Will Be Boys. Alissa Quart. NY Times. 2/16/2008.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.
Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds. Shankar Vedantan. Washington Post. 1/20/2008
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
When Girls Will Be Boys. Alissa Quart. NY Times. 2/16/2008.
Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon
Hate Crimes and Statistics from the FBI.
Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League
World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.
Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.
International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development UN
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
Welcome To The New Company Town. Jerry Unseem & Ann Harrington. Fortune 01/10/2000, Vol. 141, Issue 1.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose. Adrian Appel. Inter Press Service. 7/09/2010.
GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.
Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.
10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws. Eric Lichtblau. NY Times. 8/08/2009.
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
More higher-income families are home schooling their children. Greg Toppo. USA Today. 6/02/2009.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org
Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf
Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
Peak Oil and the Working Class. Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 9/16/2005.
As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006
Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
Learning from Concentrated Poverty in America: A Synthesis of Themes from the Case Studies. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. Full report.
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case studies from communities across the U.S.. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. (original) Synthesis of Themes
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)
Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.
Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)
Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.
New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.
Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.
Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.
Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.
A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.
Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.
Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.
Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.
Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Ending Homelessness. Lori Aratani. Washington Post. 1/16/2008.
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
France's 'boys will be boys' mentality challenges gender equality
White History 101. Gary Younge, The Nation. 2/15/07.
Work complaints hang over plant. Brent Hunsberger and Gosia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
>HUD Homeless Resource Exchange
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon
Hate Crimes and Statistics from the FBI.
Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League
Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose. Adrian Appel. Inter Press Service. 7/09/2010.
World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Oil Spills, Coal Disasters, Immigration Hysteria: Unlearned Lessons from 1924. Jeff Biggers. AlterNet. 6/02/2010.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
Feds slam Texas factory over discrimination claims. CNN. 4/15/2010.
GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.
The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.
Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.
10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
Indian eunuchs given separate IDs. BBC. 11/13/2009.
World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.
STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
What 8.5 Percent Looks Like. NPR. 4/03/2009.
Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.
The Hidden Health Toll of Race. Ryan Blitstein. Miller-McCune. 7/11/2009.
Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws. Eric Lichtblau. NY Times. 8/08/2009.
Child trafficking on the rise. The Straits Times (Singapore). 9/01/2009.
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Saving Girls' Self Esteem. Ruth Conniff. The Progressive. 9/02/2009.
When someone is raised female and the genes say XY. Seth Borenstein. AP. 9/11/2009.
Israel Timeline: The Long Way Home. Ben Buchwalter. Mother Jones. 9/11/2009.
Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
Africa goes hardcore. Tim Samuels. Guardian/UK. 8/30/09.
The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland
State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.
Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.
High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.
Why XX must think like XY to earn more K. Marilyn Davidson. BBC. 5/14/2009.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.
More higher-income families are home schooling their children. Greg Toppo. USA Today. 6/02/2009.
When is inequality unfair?. Sunder Katwala. Guardian/UK. 6/23/2009.
RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.
Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009
The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)
Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.
Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.
One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City
Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.
The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org
Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.
Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
Jim Crow in the North. Lewis Steele. In These Times. 1/08/2009.
Gap in what we say vs. what we do about racism. AP. 1/10/2009.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
Colombia Indians face down violence. Chris Kraul. LA Times, 1/11/2009.
After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.
No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.
$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Low-Skilled Workers Struggle Amid More Competition and Fewer Openings. Chris Jenklins. Washington Post. 12/20/2008.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.
The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.
Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.
Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.
Peak Oil and the Working Class. Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 9/16/2005.
Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.
As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006
Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
Learning from Concentrated Poverty in America: A Synthesis of Themes from the Case Studies. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. Full report.
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case studies from communities across the U.S.. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. (original) Synthesis of Themes
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.
Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)
Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.
Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)
Age Stratification. S Rowan Wolf. 9/2005.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.
Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.
Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.
Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.
Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.
Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.
Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.
Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)
Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.
Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress. Tara Parker-Pope. NY Times. 10/13/2008,
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts. Solomon Moore. NY Times. 9/13/2008.
Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.
Should the internet game Muslim Massacre be banned?. Jenny Percival, Guardian. 9/11/2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.
Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.
Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.
More Women May Retire Poor. Candice Choi. ABC News. 7/09/2008.
The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.
Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.
S Africa Chinese 'become black'. BBC. 6/18/2008.
Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill. Michelle Chen. In These Times. 7/09/2008.
Borrow a Muslim? A 'living library' to prick stereotypes. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. 6/ 04/2008.
Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.
Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.
American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.
Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.
New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.
Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
Race and Extreme Inequality. Dedrick Muhammad. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.
Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.
Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.
Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.
Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.
Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.
James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.
Japan's Ainu hope new identity leads to more rights. Takehiko Kambayashi. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Kevin Merida, Wa. Post. 5/13/2008.
Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.
How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.
Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.
Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.
Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds. Anthea Lipsett. Guardian/UK. 5/30/2008.
HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)
The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.
Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.
Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.
Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.
African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.
Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.
Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.
Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.
New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.
Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA). Timothy Gutowski et al. IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment. 5/2008. Research study on life style effects on global warming emissions.
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.
Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.
Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.
Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.
Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.
Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.
Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.
Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.
Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race. Mireya Navarro. NY Times. 3/31/2008.
Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.
Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.
Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective
Women face bias worldwide - UN. BBC. 4/05/2008.
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.
Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.
Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.
Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.
Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.
Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.
Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.
Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.
Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.
UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
When Girls Will Be Boys. Alissa Quart. NY Times. 2/16/2008.
Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.
Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.
Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.
Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.
The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.
Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.
Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.
Can You Tell Someone's Race By Looking at Them? Interactive test
US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.
Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds. Shankar Vedantan. Washington Post. 1/20/2008
The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.
Crowd Behavior. A Richmond, California high school student is gang raped in front of observers and no one called for help. The video below is from CNN on 10/29/09. The video is also available here.
Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.
UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.
Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.
State of the Dream: Foreclosed. United for a Fair Economy. 1/16/2008. Charts: Racial cost of predatory lending; more charts
Ending Homelessness. Lori Aratani. Washington Post. 1/16/2008.
Contextual Evidence of Gender Discrimination: The Ascendance of "Social Frameworks". Monahan, Walker, and Mitchell. University of Virginia Law School: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. 2008. Paper 90. (Also available here). PDF 35 pages.
The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills. Norman Birnbaum. The Nation. 3/19/2009.
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/27/2011. (Actual report)
Contextual Evidence of Gender Discrimination: The Ascendance of "Social Frameworks". Monahan, Walker, and Mitchell. University of Virginia Law School: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. 2008. Paper 90. (Also available here). PDF 35 pages.
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.
The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills. Norman Birnbaum. The Nation. 3/19/2009.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.
Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.
Crowd Behavior. A Richmond, California high school student is gang raped in front of observers and no one called for help. The video below is from CNN on 10/29/09. The video is also available here.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org
Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf
Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.
3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.
3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.
Soc 2133/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.
'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.
3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.
A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.
A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking
A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.
Africa goes hardcore. Tim Samuels. Guardian/UK. 8/30/09.
African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.
After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.
Age Stratification. S Rowan Wolf. 9/2005.
Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.
American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.
Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.
Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,
As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006
As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008
Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws. Eric Lichtblau. NY Times. 8/08/2009.
Baltimore Finds Subprime Crisis Snags Women. John Leland. NY Times. 1/15/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.
Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.
Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.
Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.
3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.
Borrow a Muslim? A 'living library' to prick stereotypes. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. Mark Rice-Oxley. Christian Science Monitor. 6/ 04/2008.
Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds. Anthea Lipsett. Guardian/UK. 5/30/2008.
Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
Can You Tell Someone's Race By Looking at Them? Interactive test
Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).
Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.
Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.
Child trafficking on the rise. The Straits Times (Singapore). 9/01/2009.
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Facial expressions 'not global. Judith Burns. BBC. 8/14/2009.
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Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.
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Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.
Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.
Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.
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Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007
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Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.
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Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
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