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Jacob Kushner

The GroundTruth Project

Journalist covering development economics, inequality, foreign aid & investment, governance, innovation and immigration.

Haiti’s politics of blame

May 13, 2017

Post-quake US food aid hurt Haiti farmers

May 13, 2017

Agence France-Presse

Haiti cholera outbreak: blame game begins

Aug 2, 2016

Four months and $2M US tax dollars later, Haiti’s new Parliament building sits unfinished

Jul 31, 2016

Agence France-Presse

Haiti’s unfinished Parliament

Jul 31, 2016

Agence France-Presse

Haitian farmers call on US to stop subsidizing its own

Jul 31, 2016

Agence France-Presse

The Multiplier Effect: Driving Haiti’s recovery by spending aid dollars locally

Jul 31, 2016

Haiti’s road to recovery

Jul 31, 2016

Agence France-Presse

USAID contractor Chemonics cited for numerous mistakes in Haiti

Jul 31, 2016

Income inequality: In Congo, a tale of two cities

Jul 30, 2016

Congo’s subsistence miners dig for their livelihoods

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya: A slap caught on tape sparks debate over violence against women

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya: One month after Westgate attack, police still abusing Somali Muslims

Jul 30, 2016

In Kenya, new constitution becomes a tool for workers

Jul 30, 2016

Tanzania’s perplexing youth unemployment crisis

Jul 30, 2016

For Tanzania’s albinos, superstition leads to violence

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya: A high-ranking female police officer shares her view from the top

Jul 30, 2016

Putting religious differences aside, Tanzanians craft new constitution

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya: Long days and low pay to grow Christmas flowers

Jul 30, 2016

Tanzanian teachers learning education doesn’t pay

Jul 30, 2016

In Dominican Republic, a T-shirt factory sets the highest bar for workers’ rights

Jul 30, 2016

Agence France-Presse

In Haiti, all eyes on US to reform ‘unjustifiable’ food aid program

Jul 30, 2016

New hospital encourages doctors to stay as Haiti continues to rebuild

Jul 30, 2016

Agence France-Presse

In post-earthquake Haiti, a forgotten island is left to recover on its own

Jul 30, 2016

Agence France-Presse

Four years after the Haiti earthquake, what have billions in US aid bought?

Jul 30, 2016

Kenyans call for attention to justice, the UN Millennium Development Goal that never was

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya may be uniquely ripe for advances in gay rights

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya’s workers fear for their pensions as the country cries ‘scandal’

Jul 30, 2016

Six months later: Kenya’s Westgate Mall workers reflect on a delicate recovery

Jul 30, 2016

In Kenya, major debate over government wages ‘spiraling out of control’

Jul 30, 2016

Workers hold tight to Kenya’s bygone ‘Lunatic Express’ railroad

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya redefines marriage in a blow to women’s rights

Jul 30, 2016

Coca-Cola’s river cleanup work in Tanzania shows mixed motives

Jul 30, 2016

Across Africa, Coke is empowering women — to sell Coke products

Jul 30, 2016

In Tanzania, Coke improves medical distributions

Jul 30, 2016

Agence France-Presse

Five years after the earthquake, Haiti remains on unsteady ground

Jul 30, 2016

World Bank projects leave trail of misery around the globe

Jul 30, 2016

Anti-LGBT groups are making inroads across East Africa

Jul 30, 2016

Inside the nightmares of Africa’s LGBT refugees

Jul 30, 2016

Guns, knives and rape: The plight of a gay Ethiopian refugee in Kenya

Jul 30, 2016

In Africa, being gay makes you a target for extortion

Jul 30, 2016

Kenya’s anti-terror police are inflicting terror of their own

Jul 30, 2016

Agence France-Presse

When Kenya kills: A family’s quest for justice

Jul 30, 2016

Selly Rotich stands in what used to be her kitchen. Hours earlier Kenya Forest Service officers destroyed the mud and thatch dwelling, Rotich said.

Indigenous tribe watches houses burn and points fingers at the World Bank

Oct 27, 2015