THE POVERTY CONSORTIUM

Release Date: February 15, 2019 → READ MORE...

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied the Trump administration's request to immediately enforce a new policy of denying asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. → READ MORE...

The antisemitic and neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Movement (NSM) is now under the control of a black civil rights advocate from California who once dissolved a notorious Ku Klux Klan chapter in Mississippi. → READ MORE...

February 15, 2019 → READ MORE...

In Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, he very briefly makes an important argument about Americans' responsibility to address the history of anti-black racial discrimination. Rothstein's argument is addressed to immigrants who try to distance themselves from the history of racial → READ MORE...

Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane, causing significant devastation across the island and the second-largest blackout in history. The Trump administration also contributed to an estimated 2,975 deaths because of its slow response, which failed to provide Puerto Rico with adequate → READ MORE...

Tylenol for the pain. Diapers for the blood. Towels for underwear. → READ MORE...

Improving and upgrading U.S. roads, bridges, and transportation networks; energy production and transmission systems; and other elements of human-made infrastructure is long overdue. As the new Congress begins its bipartisan, bicameral effort to pass an infrastructure bill, it's important that it not come at a cost to the natural resources → READ MORE...

For the past 70-plus years, the federal government has relied on accrediting agencies to serve as gatekeepers to the $120 billion in federal student aid that it awards each year. Legislation set by Congress tasks these independent, nonprofit membership associations with protecting students—and taxpayers—from low-quality and fraudulent institutions. For many → READ MORE...