Local businesses are a powerful economic driver in small cities like Athens, collectively employing a large number of people and making up a big part of the| Athens Politics Nerd
By Bishop Sithembele Sipuka, President, South African Council of Churches - - - Bishop Sipuka delivered these comments in the concluding session of the 2025 G20 Interfaith Forum in South Africa. Watch his comments here. Grace and peace to you all, beloved servants of humanity. As we prepare to leave…| Viewpoints
As there is no clear resolution to the federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must use all the available Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funds to provide some SNAP benefits to recipients in November. This is the minimum step the agency must take. USDA can also use its discretionary authority, like […] The post GBPI Responds to SNAP Funding Amidst Government Shutdown appeared first on Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
This article How 12-step programs can help build healthier movements was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. The 12-step method that began with Alcoholics Anonymous is a form of mutual aid that can help movement organizers take better care of each other. This article How 12-step programs can help build healthier movements was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.| Waging Nonviolence
Long waitlists are forcing parents into impossible choices, with some even leaving the workforce, as child care centers struggle with demand. ‘If they don’t have child care, they can’t work’: Parents and providers share stories of the struggle for child care appeared first on Mountain State Spotlight, West Virginia's civic newsroom.| Mountain State Spotlight
This article A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Despite facing brutal repression, the wave of youth-led movements in Nigeria and Kenya that exploded last year have shown remarkable resilience. This article A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.| Waging Nonviolence
This article We can tell a different story about Hurricane Katrina and who we are in disasters was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Authoritarians love to tell stories that make us afraid of each other, but how we respond in disasters shows that people often act with extraordinary grace and solidarity. This article We can tell a different story about Hurricane Katrina and who we are in disasters was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.| Waging Nonviolence
The Supreme Court's last term supported extremist ideology over evidence and expertise, and personal interests over the health, wellbeing and safety of others.| National Partnership for Women & Families
Strong and financially stable families are essential to a thriving Georgia. How Georgia’s state leaders use the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to respond to the massive federal changes to our economic support programs will demonstrate their commitment to families with low income and the well-being of the state. TANF, a program meant […] The post Beyond Flexible Funding: TANF Can Help Support Families with Emergency Assistance in the Face of Federal Cuts appeared fi...| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
Read the full statement here. DeKalb, Georgia – Today, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, New Georgia Project, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Common Cause Georgia, and League of Women Voters of Georgia, represented by Advancement Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, NAACP […] The post Voting Rights Advocates Move to Intervene in Suit to Protect 5,000 Georgia Voters at Risk of Removal fr...| Legal Defense Fund
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the death of William “Bill” Lucy, a visionary leader of the labor movement and champion of civil and human rights. During his tenured commitment to public service, Lucy worked tirelessly to advance economic justice across the globe. Mr. Lucy passed away at 90 years old in […] The post LDF Mourns the Loss of William “Bill” Lucy, Visionary Leader of Labor Movement and Champion of Civil and Human Rights appeared first on Legal Defense ...| Legal Defense Fund
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson has sent a letter to Missouri’s Governor Parson, urging him to stop the execution of Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams scheduled for September 24, 2024. Last month, the Circuit Court of St. Louis County entered a consent judgment accepting the Alford plea of Mr. Williams and sentencing Mr. Williams to life […] The post LDF President Urges Governor of Missouri to Stop Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams’ Execution appeared first on Legal ...| Legal Defense Fund
Countdown Day 22: The Voting Rights Amendment Act is a critical piece of legislation that was proposed by a bipartisan group of Members of Congress in response to the United States Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. Here is a list of the top ten things you should know about the VRAA: […]| Legal Defense Fund
Palestine solidarity organizations in New Jersey launched the latest expression of a growing national campaign to divest from Israel Bonds.| Waging Nonviolence
On July 17, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its second "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Economic and Financial Action: Faith Perspectives on Economic Justice." The discussion brought together faith leaders and practitioners to examine how religious communities can address debt injustice and economic inequality. The panel featured…| Viewpoints
In 2020, millions of nonprofit jobs became remote overnight. Many nonprofits have since switched back, reversing many of the equity gains remote work had brought.| Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Caring for our loved ones and neighbors is critical, important work that our families and communities depend on and the economic impact of this work is enormous. Americans' unpaid care is valued at more than $1.1 trillion a year – and women do almost two-thirds of the work.| National Partnership for Women & Families
Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.| Waging Nonviolence
A growing coalition in Portugal, Italy and Spain is challenging the harmful effects of mass tourism — and calling for a new economic model.| Waging Nonviolence
Americans are witnessing in real-time a full-throated assault on freedom and democracy, perhaps the most aggressive roll-back of civil rights protections in generations.| National Partnership for Women & Families
The Mary Ward Centre compiled the following report on Canada’s achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with focus on good employment and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The post No One Left Behind? – An intersectional analysis of the 2023 Agenda in Canada appeared first on The Awakening Project.| The Awakening Project
In the 100 days since the second Trump Administration began, there has been a barrage of harmful Executive Orders, confirmation hearings for dangerous and unqualified political nominees, unprecedented firing of federal employees along with restructuring or near elimination of many federal agencies. Amidst a nonstop, chaotic whirlwind of daily breaking news, court decisions and more, the Administration is abusing its power to turn back the clock on rights and protections for hundreds of millio...| National Partnership for Women & Families
Pastor Jamal Bryant has been instrumental in leading an economic protest against the retailer, which rolled back its DEI initiatives earlier this year.| Capital B News - Atlanta
How to recognize the characteristics that make for powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.| Waging Nonviolence
For the first time in 20 years, the gender wage gap widened. Rather than focusing on policies that would help narrow the gender wage gap, the Trump Administration cut a ten-year-old protection that helps workers discover pay discrimination.| National Partnership for Women & Families
In a chaotic and tense meeting, ACC commissioners chose to delay making a formal statement of support for racial equity on Tuesday despite a large turnout of| Athens Politics Nerd
The world looks set to see five trillionaires by the end of the decade — and more billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism. Anjela Taneja and Harry Bignell introduce Oxfam’s 2025 Davos report, which reveals the scale of unearned wealth — and how those riches are built on a colonial legacy of exploitative global systems.| Views & Voices
The 2% billionaire tax could raise $250 billion a year to fight hunger, reduce inequality, and tackle climate change – a historic move by leading nations.| TheBetter.news
August 30, 2024 Dear Friends, One of the major issues of our time – wealth inequality – seldom makes the headlines. While a few politicians, even a few billionaires, continue to raise the red flags, the press, at best, glosses over it, and most in a position to do something about it simply ignore it. I grew up| David Korten
In 2020, the Raising Haiti Foundation began funding the provision of small loans ($25-$50) to 50 women clients in two communities: Medor and Sarrazin. Most of the women use their| Ms. Magazine
Gov. Jim Justice wants child tax credits. A subsidy program needs funding. But experts say neither will solve West Virginia’s child care crisis.| Mountain State Spotlight
Front & Center is a groundbreaking Ms. series that began as first-person accounts of Black mothers living in Jackson, Miss., receiving a guaranteed income. Moving into the fourth year and next| Ms. Magazine
The far-right rioted again last night. Fuelled by racial hatred, misinformation, disinformation, and utterly inappropriate comments from Farage, hundreds rioted in London and Hartlepool. It is important to note that the numbers are small. It is as important to note that these actions are as clearly co-ordinated as was the rioting in Southport...| Funding the Future
People in the U.S. do more than $1 trillion in unpaid caregiving annually. Asian women and Latinas do the most unpaid caregiving per capita of any group.| National Partnership for Women & Families
Our upcoming oral history project, Unhoused Neighbors Speak Out, will document, center, and amplify the voices of unhoused activists.| Voice of Witness
The new Voice of Witness book, Beginning Again, shares oral histories of refugees, migrants, and generations-long residents in Appalachia.| Voice of Witness
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The end of parity pricing and supply management farm programs was a huge boon for agribusiness, particularly the meat industry. As the farm programs were dismantled, farmer grain prices fell to well under the cost of production, giving the meatpacking industry access to below-cost feed grain. Cheap feed was – and still is – a critical component of industrial confinement-based meat production.| Disparity to Parity
