Old-Age Poverty

common wealth and collective power

Shakespeare is in New Mexico. Tombstone, in Arizona. Both are old mining towns near the U.S.-Mexico border. They came into existence in the eighteen-seventies, during the silver strike, but soon suffered the same fate as most of the other mining towns in the …

Maude Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, delivered the following remarks Thursday at the Seventh Annual Tommy Douglas Institute at George Brown College in Toronto. Her keynote speech explores the interconnections between poverty and pop…

Recently I spent half day BSing (breeze-shooting, obviously) about future trends and challenges for international Blue Sky, Breeze Shoot, or something else? organizations like Oxfam. Confession: were supposed to hate these, but often theyre really fun. A t…

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Baga Sola, a small town in Chad not far from the border with Nigeria, is a refugee camp called Dar es Salaam. The name means haven of peace, but the surrounding area is an inferno of war, spilling across the borders of four countries: Chad…

In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 photo, a woman walks near shops in downtown Westport, Conn. Michael Melia/AP A dirt field overgrown with weeds is the incongruous entrance to one of Americas wealthiest towns, a short walk to a Rodeo Drive-like stretch replete…

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Candidate Profile Education Introduction Electronic Vs Paper material Typical day in your Online life? Style of Preparation and notes making Prelims (CSAT) Paper-1: General studies Prelims (CSAT): Paper-2: Aptitude Prelim accuracy Mains: Compulsory l…

In the fall of 2018 a Dutch man named Emile Ratelband petitioned a court to change the year on his birth certificate to 1969 rather than the true year, 1949. “This is American thinking,” Ratelband said, to justify his intention. “Why can’t I change my age if …

We need to know exactly where they stand. Are they for a) junk science, cooked books, rigged data, old people dying in fuel poverty, landscapes trashed and wildlife slaughtered by bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes, enriched crony capitalists, higher …