“While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence.”
See on www.barnesandnoble.com
In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics.
See on www.latimes.com
ESPN Video: North Carolina whistleblower Mary Willingham and former football player Deunta Williams discuss the fake classes that student-athletes were allegedly encouraged to take in order to maintain eligibility to play.
See on espn.go.com
“Comprehensive immigration reform efforts haven’t been successful in the House, but two members are hoping they can address at least one key piece of the issue: preventing abuse along the border that leads to invasive screenings, seizures of personal belongings, serious injuries and even deaths.”
See on www.huffingtonpost.com
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is prepared to consider the proposal to place cameras on all Border Patrol agents with the aim of preventing or elucidating violent incidents, an activist with the Southern Border Communities Coalition said Tuesday.
See on latino.foxnews.com
Predatory lending. A two-tiered justice system. The list of discriminatory practices goes on, and on, and on …
See on www.salon.com
“… public policy that should raise the most suspicion is trade policy, which fostered the offshoring of more than 2 million manufacturing jobs after Congress normalized trade relations with China in 2000. But an even more fundamental factor in the declining share of working Americans is the technological automation that has eliminated millions of jobs and is poised to eliminate millions more.
…47 percent of U.S. workers have a high probability of seeing their jobs automated over the next 20 years…”
I would prefer the author didn’t single out China. China continues to be blamed in the media because they have the worker capacity to do the jobs that are building the vast majority of consumer electronics and everything else.
On the one hand Americans love their low cost consumer electronics. On the other hand Americans complain about loosing jobs to China.
What ends up happening is that Americans start hating on all Asians (not knowing the difference between cultural groups), and next segregation, xenophobia, hate crimes, scapegoating, and maybe even immigration restrictions based on race again with the myopic thinking that Chinese people are taking all the jobs – at the low end in China and at the high end in the U.S.
There is an underlying injustice from the U.S. here:
See on www.washingtonpost.com
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“If you opt for equal funding per school, racial gaps will remain, and you will not address existing racial inequities. If you opt for equitable funding, the outcome is that students in School B above now have the opportunity to perform along the lines of students in School A, which they would not have had if you had distributed funding equally. ”
See on racemattersinstitute.org
Two Florida teens allegedly shot a police officer to death before apparently killing themselves, authorities say.
This CNN story leaves more questions than answers.
See on www.cnn.com
