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February 4, 2015

Zero tolerance drug policies cannot alleviate poverty

This post is a response to Mayor William V. “Bill” Bell’s recent guest column, “First steps key in long journey to eliminate poverty.”  Zero tolerance drug policies cannot alleviate poverty Dear Mayor Bell, Ray Gronberg e-mailed me last week asking me to respond to new language in the city’s anti-poverty initiative calling for a “zero tolerance” […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconDrug Policy,  FADE,  Ian Mance,  poverty,  SpiritHouse Inc,  zero tolerance

January 9, 2015

Duke-UNC Initiative on Poverty and Inequality Summer Fellowship

Duke-UNC Initiative on Poverty and Inequality Summer Fellowship This is a joint effort between UNC and Duke University to focus on issues of poverty and inequality in Durham and Orange counties. The initiative emphasizes the importance of developing an historical understanding as well as working with local communities to find policy solutions to these persistent […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Human Rights Tag iconDuke-UNC,  Durham,  inequality,  Orange County,  paid summer internship,  poverty,  social justice,  summer fellowship

October 10, 2014

TalkPoverty LIVE focuses on Durham's "Ban the Box" success

SCSJ Staff Attorney Daryl Atkinson discussed critical policy issues relating to poverty in America with fellow expert panelists on Thursday’s TalkPoverty LIVE! webcast. Joining him were: Jared Bernstein: Senior Fellow at the  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Biden Jodie Levin-Epstein: Deputy Director of  the Center for Law […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconBan the Box,  criminal justice reform,  Daryl Atkinson,  Durham,  poverty,  Poverty in America,  TalkPovertyLIVE

June 19, 2014

These Eight Charts Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth in America (repost)

These Eight Charts Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth in America (via Moyers & Company) Ta-Nehisi Coates’ cover story at The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” published last night — and the subject of this week’s Moyers & Company interview — shows how dramatically the legacy of slavery and centuries of legalized and institutionalized…

Category iconHuman Rights,  Recent News Tag iconeconomic inequality,  poverty,  race,  Reparations,  segregation,  Ta-Nehisi Coates,  The Atlantic

April 18, 2014

UNC journalism students explore race class and education in Durham, NC

There is no direct means by which a student becomes a dropout, unemployed or a criminal; there is no single decision, policy or process directly responsible for the transformation. But certain characteristics tend to tip the scales toward either future success or future failure. The intersection of poverty and race can be a statistically dangerous […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconFault Lines,  Mass Incarceration,  poverty,  race class and education,  school to prison pipeline,  UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications

February 20, 2014

Changes to unemployment insurance harm jobless workers and economy

Cuts to unemployment insurance in North Carolina have made it harder for jobless workers to support their families and make ends meet in an economy with simply too few jobs to go around, according to a report released this morning by the North Carolina Justice Center. The recent decline in unemployment has been largely due […]

Category iconHuman Rights Tag iconInsurance,  North Carolina,  poverty,  unemployment

January 2, 2014

Happy Outcome for Durham Homeless Does Not Absolve City Council and Police of Moral Responsibility for Panhandling Arrests

The Durham Police have endured considerable criticism in recent months for a series of high-profile shootings and revelations about the department’s controversial stop-and-search practices, which statistics show amount to a pattern and practice of racial profiling against black motorists.   Now the department’s treatment of the city’s most vulnerable citizens—its homeless population—is also drawing fire, in […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Human Rights,  Recent News Tag iconBlog Entry,  Civic Engagement,  Community Capacity,  Durham,  homeless,  homelessness,  Housing for New Hope,  Ian Mance,  loitering,  Open Table Ministry,  Panhandling,  poverty,  Scott Holmes

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We know NC deserves better than a voter ID law that: ❌ targets Black & Brown voters ❌ puts a poll tax on voting ❌ looks a lot like the last unconstitutional voter ID law. That’s why we’re taking the #ncga to court this week. #ncvoterIDtrial pic.twitter.com/K1N3…

About 3 hours ago

There’s no voter ID law that doesn’t hurt eligible voters — and NC’s latest discriminatory scheme is no exception. Follow the action as NC voters fight back — watch the Holmes v. Moore trial beginning April 12: youtu.be/GMf_Oe_-kIE #ncvoterIDtrial #ncpol pic.twitter.com/sYdz…

About 7 hours ago

Long before Georgia’s voter suppression law made national headlines, we took North Carolina’s latest Jim Crow-style attack on the freedom to vote to court. The trial begins Monday at 10 — watch it here: youtu.be/GMf_Oe_-kIE #ncvoterIDtrial #holmes pic.twitter.com/ZqGi…

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'States have the right to run elections as they see fit. However, states have a responsibility to ensure everyone is treated equally under the law.' | Winthrop professor debunks basis for restrictive voting laws wcnc.com/mobile/arti… via @wcnc

Yesterday

On Monday, we're taking North Carolina's discriminatory voter ID law to court. This reminds us how, in hard times, these laws can steal our ability to vote. washingtonpost.com/l…

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