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How the War on Global Poverty Failed

As economic programs and policies shifted from the nation to the individual, United States development experts made political allies at home but failed the world

August 25, 2021 • by Joanne Meyerowitz

_____ In 1976, Michael Harrington traveled to India, Kenya, and Tanzania to bear witness to global poverty. A prolific author with a prophetic bent, Harrington had risen to fame in 1962 with The Other America, a book that stunned readers with its searing exposé of poverty in the United States, caught ...

Politics may or may not be a sewer, but the fact is a lot of rural American backyards are: a Democratic Congresswoman from Alabama wants to fix that with tax dollars

July 20, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ There are two Americas, and of the many things that divide affluent Americans from poor ones, the one that we talk about the least might be the ability to take waste disposal for granted. But, of course, it isn’t always the case: tree roots growing into a fragile pipe, a ...

Michael Harrington

How the War on Global Poverty Failed

As economic programs and policies shifted from the nation to the individual, United States development experts made political allies at home but failed the world

In a Federal Infrastructure Bill, Waste Isn’t Pork

Politics may or may not be a sewer, but the fact is a lot of rural American backyards are: a Democratic Congresswoman from Alabama wants to fix that with tax dollars

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