THE POVERTY CONSORTIUM

The Trump administration's process for getting critical medical supplies to the states and localities that need it to fight the coronavirus pandemic has been an absolute disaster. Confused, disorganized, and opaque, President Donald Trump's laissez-faire approach has generated a Lord of the Flies-like atmosphere where states are bidding against other → READ MORE...

COVID-19 began to infect the nation at rapid speed in March, reaching every corner of the country and taking the lives of more than 6,000 people by April 3. The United Nations has dubbed the coronavirus the “most challenging” crisis the globe has witnessed since World War II. → READ MORE...

Since 2012, some 825,000 undocumented young adults who came to the United States as children have received permission to remain in the country and work lawfully under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. In 2017, the Trump administration took steps to end DACA, triggering a number of legal actions → READ MORE...

The Trump administration has failed to develop a coherent, evidence-based plan to end the coronavirus crisis. Because the administration did not take the pandemic seriously when cases first emerged in the United States, our response is now far behind that of countries such as South Korea; as a result, our → READ MORE...

As people across the country are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been given to a group of people whose health is in danger because they are locked away from the outside world – people in immigrant detention centers. → READ MORE...

More than 1,100 people age 65 or older are locked away in Alabama prisons, putting a group already highly susceptible to the deadly COVID-19 virus at an even greater risk, according to an SPLC analysis of the state's prison system. → READ MORE...