Report Shows USDA Summer Meals Programs Reach Only Fraction of Kids in Need

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Report Shows USDA Summer Meals Programs Reach Only Fraction of Kids in Need

“When the school year ends, millions of low-income children lose access to the school meals they depend on,” an expert said. An advocacy group on Tuesday published a report showing that only a fraction of children who receive free or reduced-price lunches during the school year get such benefits through United States Department of Agriculture […]

$152 Trillion. That’s How Much Wealthy Countries ‘Drained’ From the Global South Since 1960

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$152 Trillion. That’s How Much Wealthy Countries ‘Drained’ From the Global South Since 1960

“Poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around.” Capitalist powers have drained $152 trillion from the Global South since 1960, according to new peer-reviewed research quantifying the reproduction of inequality on the world scale. In an Al Jazeera essay written Thursday, three social scientists—Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist at the University of London; Dylan Sullivan, […]