http://www.civilrighttocounsel.org/about/staff Matthew Desmond’s acclaimed book, ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ drew attention to the eviction crisis in America. Estimates suggest upwards of 900,000 renters were being evicted every year in America. And that was before the pandemic forced a policy change putting a moratorium on evictions. Without it, those numbers would …
https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/books/for-which-we-stand-9781338643084.html The young people who survived the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 became daily visitors in our home through their articulate expression of grief and the millions they attracted to their cause, which involved the rallying cry of ‘stop killing kids’. As a nation, we sensed this time …
https://www.josephmichelli.com/bestsellers/ The answer to the question may be that if you do not come out stronger on the other side of the pandemic, it may be because you’ve succumbed to the many hazards within. While Joseph Michelli, who has put on microscope on companies like Starbucks and Airbnb, was undertaking the sweet assignment of breaking …
https://www.stevendudley.com/ We often hear about the notorious street gang MS-13. Some politicians make it sound as if they are a danger in all corners of the country. In many ways, they are concentrated in and around Los Angeles and local elements do, from time to time, have impact elsewhere in the country. In fact, their …
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Promised-Land/David-Stebenne/9781982102708 Societies have always had rich and the poor, but America gave definition and prominence to the three fifths of our countrymen who land somewhere in the middle. The reforms that followed the Great Depression put the federal government squarely on the side of those looking to attain a piece of the American Dream. Policies …
https://www.amazon.com/Down-Along-That-Devils-Bones/dp/1616209100 The raging battle over Confederate monuments speaks to a past and a heritage that just won’t die. The remnants of enslavement and degradation of African-Americans in America casts a long shadow and reminds us of what some call our ongoing cold Civil War. Connor Towne O’Neill in his must read book, ‘Down Along with …
https://triciabruce.com/ You may not really know how people feel about abortion because no one likes to talk about the issue. The sense you get from reading about abortion is that it divides people very neatly into camps-pro-life or pro-choice. The truth is that once you sit down and discuss the issue with everyday Americans their …
https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Biden-Life-What-Matters-ebook/dp/B08HM6RPJ7 Evan Osnos starts his new book, ‘Joe Biden: The Life, The Run and What Matters Now’ by recounting one of the tragedies that has befallen our 46th President on his long and arduous rise to the political pinnacle. And while he will often talk about the loss of his wife and daughter in a …
https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Diversity-Michelle-Silverthorn/dp/0367085674 No matter the effort we say is being put behind the movement for more diversity in the workplace, the sad reality is that the numbers are dismal. In the Fortune 500 companies where diversity numbers are compiled, fewer than 4 percent of their workforce is racially and ethnically diverse. Additionally, a study of 279 …
https://www.jonsternfeld.com/ In the introduction to the book we base this podcast on, Tim Egan describes the response to the coronavirus as ‘perhaps the greatest collapse of American society in so short a time, ever.’ Why did a confluence of unmet concerns coalesce around this health crisis, including economic suffering, disparities in care, inability to mobilize …