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29
Oct

Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?

Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …

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14
Aug

Saving the American Social Safety Net

This guest post is published as part of our Scholar-Activist series related to the American Sociological Association conference from August 11 – 14 in Philadelphia. #ASA18 #ScholarActivist By Michaela Soyer, author of Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in …

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06
Apr

Human Rights and Geography: Our Authors at AAG

One of the themes in this year’s American Association of Geographers conference (occurring in Boston from April 5 – 9) is Mainstreaming Human Rights and Geography. Many geographers and scholars from all disciplines are concerned …

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12
Aug

Poverty Redux

by Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, co-author of Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back every …

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29
Mar

How Foundations Avoid Tackling Inequality

By Erica Kohl-Arenas, author of The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Association of Geographers conference and in advance of Cesar Chavez Day.  While conducting …

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