Student Debt Relief Is a Big Deal
I borrowed modestly, worked on campus, and still had to skip meals to make loan payments — and I was one of the lucky ones.
Student Debt Means Fewer Public Servants — and More Bankers
Indebted students trained for public service are instead cutting bait and heading for Wall Street.
10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America
The Fix the Debt coalition is using the so-called “fiscal cliff” to push the same old corporate agenda of more tax breaks while shifting the burden on to the rest of us.
All Money Trails Lead to Wall Street
An anthropologist estimates that one out of five dollars Americans earn ends up in Wall Street coffers, one way or another.
We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS – Not Just Goals
Millennium Development Rights would transform the global struggle against poverty and provide accountability for governments, corporations, and others who deny those rights.
An Exit from Debt — The Need for Fair and Transparent Arbitration for Sovereign Debt in Africa and Beyond
Greece’s dramatic debt crisis earlier this year drew attention to the failure of the international financial architecture to deal with sovereign debt crises in an orderly, fair, and transparent way. Yet Greece ’s problem isn’t new. Many impoverished nations struggle under crushing debt burdens, risking default or paying debts at the expense of critical domestic needs.
What Does Africa Owe?
A closer look at this administration’s record on debt should begin with the question often posed by Africa-based civil society groups: who owes whom?
Bush’s Out-of-Tune AIDS Plan
On his tour of Africa, President Bush promotes an album with serious lyrical flaws that illustrate the ineffectiveness of the U.S. response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Investors Aim to Profit from Zambia’s Poverty
“Vulture Fund” is example of profiteering at its worst.
The Devil’s Brew of Poverty Relief
Cut global poverty in half by 2015? Not with the current mix of debt relief, U.S. trade policy, bureaucratic inertia, and greedy brokers.