May 12, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove In a supply-and-demand-based housing market, low-income families lose; landlords set rent-levels that will provide them with the profits they desire, or offer sub-standard housing at affordable […]
May 12, 2017 By Zak Thomas and Claire Hortens During the past year, Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty have become a powerful symbol of the hardships that gentrification can create for […]
This letter was read at the May 1/May Day Rally and March in Pittsburgh in front of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) building located on the South Side. “First off, […]
May 11, 2017 By Molly Rush Federal and state legislation on Single Payer Health Care has been introduced annually for over ten years. It has not been on the public radar and […]
May 20, 2017 By Carl Redwood, with Neil Cosgrove Carl Redwood is the 2017 recipient of the Merton Center’s NewPerson award, which he will receive at an event scheduled for Monday, June […]
May 5, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has, once again, ruled against the Duquesne University administration, telling it to cease nearly five years of stonewalling and begin […]
This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
May 5, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Global efforts, including that of the United States, have made great progress toward ending hunger and poverty over the last three decades. Around the world […]
May 4, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman In addition to being a racist system that intentionally targets people of color through “broken-windows policing”, stop-and-frisk policies, and racial profiling, the prison industrial complex is […]
May 4, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza Before the 2017 Academy Awards, I watched a number of the documentaries that had been nominated for my favorite category, Best Documentary. One of those films, […]
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