poverty
New UN Report Predicts Climate Crisis by 2040. Now What?
New UN Report Predicts Climate Crisis by 2040. Now What?
A new UN climate report predicts catastrophic damage by climate change by the year 2040. So what do we do now? We talk about technological and political solutions.
Trump Declares War on Poverty Over; Residents of Rural North Carolina Still Struggling to Get By
Battered by both hurricanes Maria and Florence, rural Lumberton, North Carolina, feels politically disconnected from Washington, DC.
Nikki Haley Announces She’s Stepping Down as UN Ambassador
How will Nikki Haley’s resignation impact the United States’ relationships with the rest of the world?
Officer Who Shot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice is Now Working for Another Police Force
What does the community think of this officer working for their department?
Are We Seeing Voter Disenfranchisement Leading Up to the Midterms?
As registration deadlines close in before the midterms, we look at what trends may be happening with voter disenfranchisement.
Can the Partisan Empathy Gap Be Fixed?
In the aftermath of the Kavanaugh confirmation, there are deep feelings of resentment on both sides of the aisle. Is that growing anger something that can or should be solved?
Guests:
Greg Roby
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The remorseful executioner.
August 08, 2017: Frank Thompson is the former superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he oversaw and conducted executions. Now, he works as an advocate against the death penalty. He shares his story today. Plus, The Takeaway examines the turmoil in Venezuela, why some say the Trump Administration is playing politics with nursing homes, elections in Kenya and Detroit, and strategies for cutting the U.S. prison population in half.
‘Shadow Brokers,’ Facial Recognition, Dog Days of Summer
August 18, 2016:
1. Was This NSA ‘Hack’ a Russian Plot or an Inside Job? (11 min)
2. The Inferno: Summer Heat Batters Public Housing Residents (6 min)
3. Female Jail Population Skyrockets in The U.S. (6 min)
4. Super Facial Recognition: A New Reality for Police (7 min)
5. A Strategy for Reducing Underwater Noise Pollution (7 min)
The Price of Justice, When Summer’s No Vacation, Design and Desire
June 16, 2016:
1. How the 2016 Election Could Reshape the Electoral Map (8 min)
2. After Orlando, Republican Strategist Thinks Twice About Trump (3 min)
3. When Being Convicted Means Paying Forever (7 min)
4. For Some Parents, Summer’s No Vacation (8 min)
5. Design as the Invention of Desire (7 min)
Machine Control, Citizen Scientists, Reality TV
May 18, 2016:
1. What Happens When The Machines Don’t Need Us Anymore (10 min)
2. Wealth, Poverty, and The Clinton Welfare Legacy (6 min)
3. While Congress Debates Zika, Citizen Scientists Fight Mosquitoes (9 min)
4. When Transparency is Abused (5 min)
5. As Reality TV Dies Off, Execs Look Towards the Future (7 min)
Freedom From Want, Arctic Travel, Culture of Destruction
April 13, 2016: 1. Freedom From Want: FDR’s Dream Unrealized as 47 Million Live in Poverty | 2. Worker Strikes On the Rise in China | 3. The Bulldozer: America’s Tool For Destruction, Progress & Disenfranchisement | 4. Paul Ryan Denies He’s Running for President — Again | 5. Preparing for a Maiden Voyage Through the Northwest Passage
Pope Francis Seeks to Heal the Carnage of Mexico’s Drug War
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Pope Francis is at the tail-end of his six-day visit to Mexico, home to the globe’s second largest Catholic population.
The first Latin American pope has made issues of income inequality, poverty, and violence the cornerstones of his papacy. And the pontiff’s tour of Mexico will continue that tradition—his itinerary includes stops in Ecatepec, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Morelia, and Ciudad Juarez, some of the most dangerous and violent cities in the country.
Pope Francis’ visit highlights key issues Mexico has been wrestling with, such as poverty, gangs, violence, immigration, and now even contraception and abortion, as concerns about the Zika virus continue to grow.
Franc Contreras, a freelance correspondent for CCTV America and contributor to PRI’s The World, discusses why the pope’s visit to Mexico is so remarkable, and whether it will provoke widespread change for the country.
In Baltimore, A Healthcare Crisis for the Poor
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The Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland is known for one of it’s most successful residents: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice. The neighborhood is also known, more infamously, as the home of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody last April.
The outcry and protests that followed Gray’s death have shined a spotlight on what remains one of the nation’s most segregated and poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Despite being near some of America’s most prestigious hospitals, Sandtown-Winchester residents, on average, die a decade earlier than the average American. Life expectancy is similar to that of impoverished North Korea.
In a special report for Kaiser Health News, reporter Jay Hancock examines why healthcare in Sandtown-Winchester is elusive, and how Baltimore is making efforts to bridge the medical divide.