Tag Archives: Poverty

The New York Times 3:15 pm on July 3, 2022
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The Culture War That More Christians Should Be Fighting

If we don’t talk about economic justice, we are advancing an emaciated view of Christian political engagement.

#christians-and-christianity, #income-inequality, #internal-sub-only-nl, #philanthropy, #poverty

The New York Times 3:00 pm on July 2, 2022
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In El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Nothing More Than Authoritarian Propaganda

The country’s cryptocurrency paradise is a mirage.

#bitcoin-currency, #bukele-nayib, #credit-and-debt, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #el-salvador, #freedom-of-the-press, #human-rights-and-human-rights-violations, #politics-and-government, #poverty

The New York Times 9:19 am on June 14, 2022
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In South Asia, Climate Change Worries Take On Fresh Urgency

Hundreds of millions of humanity’s most vulnerable live in South Asia, where rising temperatures make it more difficult to address poverty, food security and health challenges.

#agriculture-and-farming, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #floods, #food-insecurity, #global-warming, #heat-and-heat-waves, #politics-and-government, #poverty, #south-asia, #weather

The New York Times 7:00 pm on May 28, 2022
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Summer Camp for All

It’s hard to imagine a more ideal escape for young people living through an extraordinary time of grief, loneliness and upheaval.

#american-camp-assn, #bank-street-college, #black-people, #children-and-childhood, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #education-k-12, #federal-aid-us, #hispanic-americans, #income-inequality, #medicine-and-health, #mental-health-and-disorders, #minorities, #new-york-city, #parks-and-other-recreation-areas, #philanthropy, #poverty, #psychology-and-psychologists, #summer-season, #youth

The New York Times 12:00 pm on May 21, 2022
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At Davos, a Referendum on the World Economic Forum

Many values espoused by the World Economic Forum — globalization, liberalism, free market capitalism, representative democracy — are under attack.

#capitalism-theory-and-philosophy, #davos-switzerland, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #food-insecurity, #high-net-worth-individuals, #politics-and-government, #poverty, #schwab-klaus, #war-and-armed-conflicts, #world-economic-forum, #worldeconomicforum2022

The New York Times 3:15 am on May 21, 2022
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The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers

In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a mystery, until now.

#coffee, #colonization, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #france, #haiti, #poverty, #slavery-historical

The New York Times 5:02 pm on May 20, 2022
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Help With Medicare Costs: What You Need to Know

Low-income Americans on Medicare can get assistance paying their premiums and other expenses. Several states have allowed more people to qualify.

#age-chronological, #content-type-service, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #elderly, #extra-help, #federal-aid-us, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #income, #medicare, #medicare-savings-program, #personal-finances, #poverty, #retirement

The New York Times 9:38 am on May 14, 2022
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In Afghanistan, Collecting Scrap Metal Is a Risky Pursuit

Discarded metal left by decades of conflict has become a livelihood for impoverished Afghans. But many have been killed by unexploded munitions.

#afghanistan, #afghanistan-war-2001, #deaths-fatalities, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #explosions-accidental, #military-bases-and-installations, #mines-explosive, #poverty, #salvage, #steel-and-iron, #taliban, #wardak-afghanistan

The New York Times 2:04 pm on May 9, 2022
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If Roe Is Overturned, Where Should the Pro-Life Movement Go Next?

“Now is not the time to brag or gloat or celebrate. Now is the time to get to work.”

#abortion, #affordable-housing, #birth-control-and-family-planning, #child-care, #christians-and-christianity, #family-leaves, #internal-sub-only-nl, #poverty, #roe-v-wade-supreme-court-decision, #supreme-court-us

The New York Times 3:00 pm on May 7, 2022
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We Pay to Keep the Old Out of Poverty. Why Won’t We Do the Same for the Young?

Child poverty is a not a problem without a solution.

#child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #children-and-childhood, #families-and-family-life, #food-insecurity, #poverty, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #youth

The New York Times 7:19 pm on April 15, 2022
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On Homelessness, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams Needs a Little Religion

People experiencing homelessness are our neighbors.

#adams-eric-l, #group-homes-and-supportive-housing, #hochul-kathleen-c, #homeless-persons, #manhattan-nyc, #new-york-city, #poverty, #public-and-subsidized-housing, #social-conditions-and-trends

The New York Times 9:00 am on April 12, 2022
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To Help Children, Democrats are Going to Have to Reach Across the Aisle

A bipartisan Child Tax Credit expansion may actually be within reach.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #children-and-childhood, #clinton-hillary-rodham, #collins-susan-m, #democratic-party, #federal-taxes-us, #manchin-joe-iii, #poverty, #republican-party, #romney-mitt, #rubio-marco, #senate, #tax-credits-deductions-and-exemptions, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 2:13 pm on April 11, 2022
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A One-Woman Rescue Squad for Homeless Students in Rural Texas

The work of Norma Mercado, a Texas school system’s point person for dealing with homeless young people, is benefiting from a big but temporary surge in federal funding.

#american-rescue-plan-2021, #children-and-childhood, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #education-k-12, #federal-aid-us, #homeless-persons, #poverty, #texas

Ars Technica 2:09 pm on February 21, 2022
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Study: Reducing poverty and climate goals aren’t at odds

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Enlarge / Eliminating extreme poverty won’t necessarily boost emissions as much as people fear. (credit: Soltan Frédéric)

The United Nations’ first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aims to eradicate poverty around the world. If implemented, however, it might see people consume more—drive more often, buy more products—and, thus, produce more carbon emissions, fueling climate change. “With more money to spend, and therefore more consumption, there is usually a higher carbon footprint,” Benedikt Bruckner, a master’s student of energy and environmental sciences at the University of Groningen, told Ars.

But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way, according to a new study put out by Bruckner, other researchers out of Groningen, and colleagues in the United States and China.

Published in Nature, the research makes use of high-level data about consumption patterns to show that reaching SDG 1—which shoots to move every person out of extreme poverty (under $1.90 per day) and half of everyone above the poverty lines of their respective countries—won’t excessively fuel climate change.

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#climate, #data, #poverty, #poverty-alleviation, #science, #world-bank

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 18, 2022
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Why Do We Make the Poor Run an Obstacle Course to Get Help?

It doesn’t have to be this hard.

#child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #code-for-america, #computers-and-the-internet, #democratic-party, #minnesota, #poverty, #unemployment-insurance, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 5:21 pm on February 15, 2022
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An MTA Discount Program So Exclusive, Barely Anyone in NYC Qualifies

A city program gives 260,000 low-income New Yorkers half-price transit rides. Advocates and transit leaders are calling on the mayor to expand his investment.

#adams-eric-l, #city-council-nyc, #community-service-society-of-new-york, #income-inequality, #metrocard-nyc, #metropolitan-transportation-authority, #new-york-city, #poverty, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #riders-alliance, #subways, #transit-systems, #urban-institute

The New York Times 6:02 pm on February 3, 2022
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Food Prices Hit Two-Decade High, Threatening the World’s Poor

The prices have climbed to their highest level since 2011, according to a U.N. index. It could cause social unrest “on a widespread scale,” one expert said.

#africa, #agriculture-and-farming, #bureau-of-labor-statistics, #commodities, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #food, #food-and-agriculture-organization-of-the-united-nations, #food-insecurity, #grain, #inflation-economics, #international-trade-and-world-market, #pork, #poverty, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #shortages, #supply-chain, #united-states-economy

The New York Times 8:00 am on January 31, 2022
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Migrant Worker’s Tale of Inequality Grips China, Then Is Erased

A man with Covid revealed a parallel universe to well-off Chinese and became a symbol of inequality. The government found him inconvenient to its narrative.

#censorship, #china, #computers-and-the-internet, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #income-inequality, #migrant-labor-non-agriculture, #missing-persons, #parenting, #poverty, #social-media, #surveillance-of-citizens-by-government, #xi-jinping

The New York Times 8:00 pm on January 24, 2022
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Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Improves Brain Function in Babies, Study Finds

The research could have policy implications as President Biden pushes to revive his proposal to expand the child tax credit.

#babies-and-infants, #babys-first-years, #brain, #child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #federal-aid-us, #income, #income-inequality, #poverty, #proceedings-of-the-national-academy-of-sciences, #research, #united-states-politics-and-government, #welfare-us

The New York Times 4:15 pm on January 22, 2022
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The Systemic Realities Created by Legal Abortion

Thoughts on the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

#abortion, #family-leaves, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #internal-sub-only-nl, #poverty, #pregnancy-and-childbirth, #womens-rights

The New York Times 5:54 pm on January 18, 2022
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How $1,000 a Month in Guaranteed Income Is Helping N.Y.C Mothers

A new, privately funded program offers families in poverty a steady stream of cash.

#bridge-project, #citizenscommittee-for-children-of-new-york, #income, #new-york-city, #parenting, #poverty

The New York Times 10:00 am on January 2, 2022
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Child Tax Credit’s Extra Help Ends, Just as Covid Surges Anew

A pandemic benefit that many progressives hoped to make permanent has lapsed in a congressional standoff. Researchers say it spared many from poverty.

#american-rescue-plan-2021, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #children-and-childhood, #manchin-joe-iii, #poverty, #tax-credits-deductions-and-exemptions, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 8:00 pm on December 23, 2021
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Why We Feast During the Holidays

There’s a widespread need to reconnect to all the things that make life worth living, and what better moment than now?

#content-type-service, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #food, #poverty, #quarantine-life-and-culture

The New York Times 10:00 am on December 23, 2021
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Welcome to the Charles Dickens Luxury Apartments

Want to understand London’s economic transformation? Have a look around the condo conversion of the workhouse that inspired “Oliver Twist.”

#dickens-charles, #historic-buildings-and-sites, #london-england, #national-health-service, #oliver-twist-book, #poverty, #real-estate-and-housing-residential

The New York Times 4:00 pm on December 19, 2021
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It’s Been a Hard Year. These 3 Charities Could Use Your Help.

The world needs an outpouring of generosity.

#gifts, #internal-sub-only-nl, #nonprofit-organizations, #philanthropy, #polaris-project, #poverty, #refugees-and-displaced-persons

The New York Times 4:55 pm on December 8, 2021
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How Tech is Helping Poor People Get Government Aid

Even as the government expanded aid programs, many people faced barriers to using them. That problem is now being addressed with apps and streamlined websites.

#chen-jimmy, #civilla, #code-for-america, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #food-stamps, #mobile-applications, #mobile-commerce-and-payments, #poverty, #propel-inc, #states-us, #stimulus-economic, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #welfare-us

The New York Times 8:00 pm on December 2, 2021
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Social Welfare Can Break the Intergenerational Cycle of Poverty

Intervening in children’s lives early can help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

#children-and-childhood, #education-pre-school, #food-stamps, #poverty, #welfare-us

The New York Times 1:08 pm on December 2, 2021
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Dear People of 2021: What Can We Learn From Hindsight?

For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed.

#acquired-immune-deficiency-syndrome, #democracy-theory-and-philosophy, #europe, #european-union, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #internal-open-access, #new-york-city, #poverty, #united-nations, #united-states, #water

The New York Times 10:00 am on December 2, 2021
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Extreme Poverty Has Been Sharply Cut. What Has Changed?

The U.N. pledged to cut by half the proportion of people living in the worst conditions around the world.

#china, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #internal-open-access, #poverty, #rural-areas, #united-nations

The New York Times 12:00 pm on November 26, 2021
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The Humble Beginnings of Today’s Culinary Delicacies

Many of our most revered dishes were perfected by those in need, then co-opted by the affluent. Is that populism at play, or just the abuse of power?

#caviar, #food, #holiday-issue-2021, #income-inequality, #lobsters, #luxury-goods-and-services, #poverty, #seafood, #spam-canned-meat

The New York Times 12:00 pm on November 17, 2021
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Where Are Young People Most Optimistic? In Poorer Nations.

More than half of Americans, young and old, say children today will be less economically successful than their parents, a global survey shows.

#anxiety-and-stress, #income, #optimism, #polls-and-public-opinion, #poverty, #third-world-and-developing-countries, #youth

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 11, 2021
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Reagan’s Long Shadow

Social welfare has been a boogeyman of the right and left since Reagan.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #manchin-joe-iii, #poverty, #reagan-ronald-wilson, #welfare-us

The New York Times 8:38 pm on November 10, 2021
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The ‘Benefits Cliff’ Discourages People From Making More Money

When low-income workers increase their paychecks, they can end up poorer.

#income-tax, #internal-sub-only-nl, #labor-and-jobs, #poverty, #tax-credits-deductions-and-exemptions, #welfare-us

The New York Times 4:40 pm on October 30, 2021
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Pressure Grows on G20 Nations to Get Covid Vaccines to the Poor

The world’s leaders are focusing on preventing future pandemics, but experts say rich nations are not doing enough to help the poor survive the current one.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #blinken-antony-j, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #deaths-fatalities, #demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #draghi-mario, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #foreign-aid, #francis, #group-of-twenty, #income-inequality, #international-trade-and-world-market, #pfizer-inc, #philanthropy, #politics-and-government, #poverty, #rome-italy, #sullivan-jacob-j-1976, #third-world-and-developing-countries, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vaccination-and-immunization, #world-health-organization

The New York Times 9:00 am on October 27, 2021
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Higher Food Prices Hit the Poor and Those Who Help Them

Many households are being forced to adjust their shopping lists or seek assistance. But food banks, too, are feeling the pinch.

#food, #food-banks-and-pantries, #food-insecurity, #inflation-economics, #poverty, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #quarantine-life-and-culture, #social-conditions-and-trends, #united-states-economy

The New York Times 7:00 am on October 9, 2021
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Debate Looms Over I.M.F.: Should It Do More Than Put Out Fires?

As the International Monetary Fund gets set for its annual meeting, economists ask if it’s time to update its mandate as the world’s financial crisis responder.

#banking-and-financial-institutions, #georgieva-kristalina-ivanova, #income-inequality, #international-monetary-fund, #international-trade-and-world-market, #labor-and-jobs, #poverty, #republican-party, #united-states-economy, #wilmer-cutler-pickering-hale-and-dorr-llp, #world-bank

The New York Times 7:35 pm on October 4, 2021
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On Concerns About Debt, and Disregard for Climate and Child Poverty

Why don’t those who used to obsess over debt seem to care about the future?

#budget-deficits, #children-and-childhood, #federal-budget-us, #global-warming, #medicare, #national-debt-us, #poverty, #social-security-us, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 12:57 pm on September 30, 2021
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Book Review: ‘Invisible Child,’ by Andrea Elliott

“Invisible Child,” by the New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott, expands on her much-admired 2013 series, following the lives of a New York City child and her family, as they strive to stay together and make ends meet.

#black-people, #books-and-literature, #children-and-childhood, #coates-dasani, #content-type-personal-profile, #elliott-andrea, #families-and-family-life, #homeless-persons, #invisible-child-poverty-survival-and-hope-in-an-american-city-book, #new-york-city, #poverty

The New York Times 3:30 pm on September 25, 2021
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Should the U.S. Expand the Social Safety Net?

Readers disagree with a guest essay that argued that America cannot afford the $3.5 trillion bill now before Congress.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #federal-budget-us, #gross-domestic-product, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #income-inequality, #law-and-legislation, #mankiw-n-gregory, #paid-time-off, #poverty, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 24, 2021
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Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone

From Birmingham to Gee’s Bend, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation is directly investing in Alabama communities where artists and quilters live, work — and struggle.

#alabama, #arnett-bill-1939-2020, #art, #birmingham-ala, #black-people, #boykin-ala, #minter-joe, #museums, #philanthropy, #poverty, #quilts, #souls-grown-deep-foundation

The New York Times 4:57 pm on September 21, 2021
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Why the Child Tax Credit Should Be Permanent

Spending more on children is a very good idea.

#child-tax-credits-and-stipends, #economics-theory-and-philosophy, #food-stamps, #internal-sub-only, #poverty

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 16, 2021
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Our Foster Care System Is Fundamentally Broken

Group homes have to go before more youths are harmed.

#adoptions, #children-and-childhood, #drug-abuse-and-traffic, #foster-care, #poverty

The New York Times 7:42 pm on September 15, 2021
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The U.S. Is Winning the War on Poverty

Government programs have steadily reduced the share of people in poverty

#census, #homeless-persons, #income-inequality, #internal-sub-only, #poverty, #united-states-economy

The New York Times 2:59 pm on September 14, 2021
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Poverty in the U.S. Declined Thanks to Government Aid, Census Report Shows

Taking into account government benefits, a smaller share of the population was living in poverty in 2020 even as the pandemic eliminated millions of jobs.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #census-bureau, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #poverty, #recession-and-depression, #unemployment, #unemployment-insurance, #united-states, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 7:00 pm on September 12, 2021
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Writing for the Poor

A paper’s columnists should be like an orchestra, each playing a different instrument. I decided that I was going to play the banjo.

#content-type-personal-profile, #grambling-state-university, #new-york-times, #poverty, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:59 pm on September 12, 2021
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Health Care in Afghanistan Is Crumbling, Aid Groups Warn

After the Taliban’s takeover, international donors withdrew funds that hospitals and clinics depended on. Now a fourth wave of Covid looms.

#afghanistan, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #foreign-aid, #humanitarian-aid, #medicine-and-health, #poverty, #taliban, #world-bank, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 7:00 am on September 10, 2021
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Why $46 Billion Couldn’t Prevent an Eviction Crisis

As national eviction protections lapse, much of the rental assistance sits unspent. Aid was slowed by red tape, resistance from landlords and the difficulty of navigating an informal market. Does a lease on a napkin qualify?

#affordable-housing, #american-rescue-plan-2021, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act-2020, #evictions, #house-financial-services-committee, #landlords, #local-government, #poverty, #renting-and-leasing-real-estate, #section-8-housing, #sperling-gene, #states-us

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 2, 2021
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Why the Taliban Desperately Need Cash to Run Afghanistan

The group has long tapped underground banks and opium to fund Afghanistan’s insurgency. Fixing the nation’s problems will require a lot more than that.

#afghanistan, #afghanistan-war-2001, #banking-and-financial-institutions, #currency, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #food-insecurity, #foreign-aid, #hawala, #opium, #poverty, #smuggling, #taliban

The New York Times 9:00 am on August 20, 2021
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Why an East Harlem Street Is 31 Degrees Hotter Than Central Park West

If you want to map inequality in New York, you can just count trees.

#air-conditioning, #black-people, #bronx-nyc, #discrimination, #health-and-mental-hygiene-department-nyc, #heat-and-heat-waves, #income-inequality, #minorities, #new-york-city, #poverty, #real-estate-and-housing-residential, #summer-season, #trees-and-shrubs, #weather

The New York Times 3:35 am on August 12, 2021
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Bangladesh Reopens Economy Despite Covid Third Wave

The government is lifting a lockdown despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak could worsen.

#bangladesh, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-reopenings, #deaths-fatalities, #disease-rates, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #hospitals, #oxygen, #politics-and-government, #poverty, #workplace-hazards-and-violations