Poverty
Poor Nations Suffer Most at Hands of Climate Change
September of 2017 will go down in history as a horrific month of natural catastrophes. Severe rains and a small cyclone in Zimbabwe killed 117 people, China was hit by severe flooding that killed at least 144, followed by more […]
Nepal Anticipates Ten Days of Rain After Earthquake Destroys Homes
The heart of Nepal breaks as power becomes limited, fuel reserves are low, there is little to no food and people everywhere have lost whatever home or shelter they may have had. Three days ago a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck […]
The Prosperous and the Penniless: Jamaican Poverty
“There’s good and there’s bad here, it’s not a perfect place” Lavish beach-front estates that line the shore are contrasted with brightly patched up shacks and huts. Wealthy hotel owners head home in clean, air conditioned cars while local fisherman […]
Neoliberalism Part 2: Causing an Increase in Global Inequality
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 […]
