Renee Ormond

When older generations describe the millennials, my generation, as a group of lost kids who are too wrapped up in technology to care about anything, I take serious offense. There are many things to be critical of, however my generation […]

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be raised by a parent who came from a completely different culture than you grew up in? It is unimaginable how hard it would be to understand this parent, and understand […]

Throughout this series, we have discussed how big government structural adjustment programs and multilateral financial institutions perpetuate Neoliberalism. They use a top down approach to poverty reduction, that doesn’t really help those who are most impoverished. So, what can we […]

In order to understand how Neoliberalism affects Jamaica, We have to look at some history. The Island was a colonial possession of England until its independence in 1962. Many countries that have been colonies of westerns powers have had trouble, […]

As we discussed in the first article in this series, Neoliberalism: What Is It?, Neoliberalism is the dominant for of capitalism that our global economy. It began in the 1980s as a way to promote global trade and grow all […]

In our globalized world, we are constantly bombarded with terms like globalization, free trade and even liberal economic policy. These phrases are thrown into different context and often seem to represent the same thing without having that intention. What are […]

It’s a familiar story in the U.S. to hear about immigrants from Central and South America emigrating illegally and legally in the hopes of having a better future. Many of these migrants flee poverty and violence, or are simply in […]