U.S. Leads in Income Inequality and Moving ‘Full Steam Ahead to Make Itself More Unequal’
Reprinted with permission from the Human Rights at Home Blog. For two weeks at the end of last year, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty crisscrossed the United States, speaking to communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lowndes…
The Right to Family in the Era of the “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policy
On May 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new iteration of the Trump administration’s draconian stance on immigration: the “zero tolerance” policy. In short, the “zero tolerance” policy directs prosecutors to charge as many people crossing the border…