(MintPress)— “Poverty is the new slavery,” Princeton University professor Cornel West recently concluded. “Oligarchs are the new kings. They’re the new heads of this structure of domination." Nearly half of Americans are living in poverty or can be considered low income, according to the latest census data. While the U.S. Department of Labor
Poverty: The New Slavery In The US?
Homeless people sleep on pews at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005. The church looks like an evacuation center, row after row of desperate people and their sparse belongings. This roomful of displaced people is neither an emergency shelter nor a temporary situation. It is the ongoing, daily, chronic disaster […]