This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a striking 3,469-square-mile expanse of sprawling grasslands and craggy badlands that sits in the southwest corner of South Dakota, touching Nebraska’s northern edge. Traversing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It had been a long night for Shanta Sweatt. After working a 16-hour shift cleaning the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, in Nashville, and then catching the 11:15 bus to her…
Rutger Bregman (1988) studied at Utrecht University and the University of California in Los Angeles, majoring in History. In September 2013 Bregman joined the online journalism platform De Correspondent. His…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While there are many indicators of opportunity and the condition of communities, few are more important than the poverty rate. That rate–the percentage of people with incomes below the federally-defined…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Poverty is normally seen as a deep, complex, social problem. But to the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman it comes down to something simple: a lack of cash. In a well-received talk…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some of these students are dropouts, financially supporting themselves or their families. Some of them, like Bernard — who moved to the U.S. two years ago from Haiti looking to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This Year’s World Child Labor Day quietly came and went. Child labor fell by one-third between 2000 and 2012. But about 1 in 10 children worldwide, or 168 million…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is always someone who is in dire need of assistance. Helping them enables us to connect with other human beings and to rediscover the good in humanity. Charity benefits not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our top policy priority is investing in pathways out of poverty for all opportunity youth. The transition to adulthood is a critical inflection point. It is a time when young…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Slavery persists in homes across America. There are few subjects more painful than slavery. The word itself conjures images of the most shameful and ugly parts of humanity and our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was just after school got out, on one of those blinding, bright days in Phoenix, when 10-year-old Angel Marin learned that his mom was gone. He was walking home…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Spark MicroGrants, a small NGO that practices what’s called community-driven development, an approach that invites communities to design, execute and manage their own aid projects–farms to feed families, power lines, schools…