THE POVERTY CONSORTIUM

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week postponed the removal of Spanish-language journalist Manuel Duran for two weeks. → READ MORE...

Mulugeta Seraw was standing on a corner in Portland, Oregon, when they spotted him. → READ MORE...

According to proposed regulations released on Friday, Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is planning to once again undermine sexual assault survivors' rights by changing fundamental aspects of Title IX. This landmark civil rights law, passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded → READ MORE...

A new report released this week by the Arkansas Department of Human Services shows that more than 3,800 additional residents were stripped of their Medicaid coverage in October. → READ MORE...

November 15, 2018 → READ MORE...

As threats against journalists and a free press compound both at home and abroad, a pair of Academy Award nominees dropped by the pod to share the story of their new project celebrating the life and death of the legendary war journalist, Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012 → READ MORE...

Immediately after the election the increasingly violent Trump administration continued to feed its most hateful impulses, making it evident that in spite of some progressive wins the fate of our country's democracy hangs in the balance. Key to growing power is the voices of black women, and the Democratic Party → READ MORE...

In the past two years, hurricanes have devastated urban and rural communities from Puerto Rico to North Carolina, Florida, and American Samoa. Record-breaking and deadly wildfires have raged across Northern and Southern California, displacing families, destroying homes, and devastating communities. In the first three months of 2018 alone, the United → READ MORE...

June 15, 2018 → READ MORE...