Despite the national poverty rate making its largest upward jump in recorded history, states stockpile $5.2 billion in undistributed funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). A collection of articles published by ProPublica in 2021 detail the regulations allowing for this discrepancy and the impact the…
Consolidated mega-corporations are responsible for record inflation despite their attempts to disguise increases as an inevitable side effect of pandemic realities and administration responses. As the economy attempts to shake off the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and Americans struggle to stretch their dollars, many have blamed supply chain disruptions and…
Across the United States, politicians are pushing legislation that follows in the footsteps of a model bill put forth by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), seeking to make it illegal to compel non-profit organizations to disclose donation sources. In a June 2021 article for Sludge, Donald Shaw explains how…
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Since January 2019, the EPA has received more than 1,200 legally required disclosures of chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.” Internal whistleblowers revealed to The Intercept in November 2021 that all but one of the EPA’s reports on these chemicals have been kept…
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Between May 6 and May 18, 2021, 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, found 500 cases of digital rights violations targeting Palestinians. Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists took to social media to condemn the evictions of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem during the Spring…
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Since 2020, 26 Palestinian journalists based in the West Bank have been imprisoned for attempting to cover Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. According to an April 2022 report from The Intercept, Palestinian journalists who use their platforms to post footage or comment on Israel’s use of force are quickly placed…
On October 5, 2021, the NATO association of Canada (NAOC) held a panel discussion on its current interests and developments in “Cognitive Warfare.” According to an October 2021 report by The Grayzone, cognitive warfare involves the “weaponization of brain sciences” with the aim of “exploiting the vulnerabilities of the human…
The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and other women’s groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act and the Equality Act are funded by dark money from a variety of right-wing interest groups, Truthout reported in March 2022. Julia Peck, Ansev Demirhan,…
A September 2021 working paper by the International Monetary Fund found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, as reported on by The Guardian and Treehugger in October 2021. In 2020, governments subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $5.9 trillion, or…
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K-12 school cafeteria staff are severely underpaid according to a March 2022 report in Jacobin. School cafeteria workers made an average of $12.32 per hour between 2014 and 2019, making them some of the lowest paid workers in an already underpaid industry. Compounding this, these employees work an average of…
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