Students in my Wealth, Poverty, and International Aid class point out the disconnect between their ideas of the root causes of poverty and the prescriptions offered by poverty relief organizations.
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This post explores how international travel has become de rigueur in some social circles even as the United States incarcerates children removed from their immigrant parents in “tent cities.”
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After spending one week with NCSU students supporting CARA's pro bono legal work processing asylum cases at an ICE family detention center, I found it hard to understand why we have the system we do.
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Looking into the extensive literature on the topic that fascinated her, she felt her own ideas shrink in comparison. She wondered whether her ideas were worthwhile...
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Ideas of “wealthy” and “poor” are comparative. The definition of each depends on the other, such that ...
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A few weeks ago, NCSU's Genetic Engineering and Society Center launched the AAGES history project. NPR reporter Dan Charles gave the keynote. The most interesting part of Charles' campus visit for me came earlier in the day when...
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