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Opinion
A Homespun Safety Net
The New York times, July 11, 2009
If nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless? More
Opinion
Opinion
Shakesville Blog, August 20, 2009
From whom are the world's women being saved? From themselves? From just the women and girls in the developing world? Or are those the only women and girls who need saving? Everything's peachy in the developed world, is it? And then there is this: Can the lives of women and girls, anywhere, be changed if the lives and men and boys aren't changed, too? More
Magazine Article
Brave New Welfare
Mother Jones Foundation for National Progress, January 31, 2009
Welfare is the only cash safety-net program for single moms and their kids, notes Rebecca Blank, an economist at the Brookings Institution and one of the nation's leading experts on poverty. "One has to worry, with a recession, about the number of women who, if they get unemployed, are not going to have anywhere to turn." More
Opinion
Why Are We Surprised When White Preppy Guys Turn Out to Be Murderers?
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Official Blog, May 5, 2009
Over and over again, coast to coast, American media outlets told us how good-looking, smart and "normal" Markoff was. The hidden code in the news coverage of Markoff was clear: tall, young white guys, especially middle-class or wealthy ones in college, just don't do stuff like this. Except that they do. The United States has produced more serial killers than any other nation on earth, and 85 percent of them have been white men. More
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Darfur in Mississippi
Clarion Ledger, March 10, 2009
Women living in emergency trailer parks in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina were three times more likely to become victims of domestic or sexual violence than they were prior to the storm, according to a new study published by the American Medical Association. More