Category: Poverty
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Jenin updates: Residents start rebuilding after Israeli attack “[Palestinians] cannot be treated as a collective security threat by the occupying Power, all the more while it advances the annexation of occupied Palestinian land, and displacement and dispossession of its Palestinian residents,” #Jenin #FreePalestine #isreal #WarCrimes OceanGate and How the Wealthy Kill One Person Killed, Several…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Nigeria: Degrees of Heat – Northern Nigeria Students Wilt in Climate Extremes “Whenever the weather is hot, students’ performance declines,” says Abubakar Kawu Monguno, Director of the Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies at the University of Maiduguri. He says that daily temperatures in the north can surpass 40°C and go as high…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic Computer-generated text, images, video, and audio will transform the way countless industries do business, the most bullish investors believe, boosting efficiency everywhere from the creative arts, to law, to computer programming. But the working conditions of data labelers reveal…
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Fuck Dem Kids 2.0
It’s 2023, and one of U.S. history’s most shitty past times is back with a vengeance: Child Labor. I wrote in a previous post that the United States of America’s bolstering of caring about the welfare of children in this nation. Yet it fails children and teens at every turn. The good old U.S.A. is…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Dr. Jason Arday
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the professor, author, and inspirational Brit, Dr.…
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Thoughts on Black Conservatives
What is a black conservative? The definition of a conservative is “a person who is averse to change and holds traditional values.” As a black person in the United States, what is a black person trying to conserve? The truth is they have nothing to converse. A simple U.S. History lesson shows that the United States has…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: George Washington Carver
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s Evolved Man of the Week profiles. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US secures deal on Philippines bases to complete arc around China In an editorial published to coincide with the arrival of the US defense secretary in Manila, China’s state-run Global Times accused the US of “setting a trap for the Philippines” and “trying to push the Philippines to the frontline of confrontation with China”.”We are…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Goodbye empire? US sanctions are failing in the face of multipolarity Whether or not Kiev will be thrown under a bus by its Western backers in due course, and the anti-Russian measures will endure after the war is over, seems to not matter so much, though – for, as Demarais was herself forced to acknowledge…
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The People’s Forest
Nothing Defunded ATL didn’t defund the police. They gave them more money. I’ve lived in ATL since 2015, and it’s always been a city of the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots.’ However, the gap between rich and poor has only gotten worse since the pandemic started. Tent cities and beggars are on almost every street corner. Atlanta…
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