Promotional graphic featuring a photo of protestors with signs about homelessness outside of the Wilson Building, a logo that says "DC Homeless Crisis (dot) press" and the phrase "Seeking solutions" with speech bubbles replacing the "o" in "solutions."

Fourth annual local news blitz on homelessness

For the fourth consecutive year, at least seven local newsrooms are joining us in a collaborative effort to investigate what is working and what is not working to reduce and prevent homelessness in our communities across the District.

Traveling exhibit visualizes redlining and systemic inequality

“Undesign the Redline” is an interactive look at how the effects of discriminatory selling practices present in the 1930s housing market still affect low-income neighborhoods today. The Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) featured the exhibit as the centerpiece of its annual meeting and housing expo this year and in its downtown D.C. office throughout June.

Photo of the Wall Street sign in NYC

Open your big mouth!

On March 12, ten years after the financial crisis, I again joined the Fed Up Campaign (the “green shirts,” as they have been named by the government bureaucrats), along with members from Spaces D.C., to march on Wall Street.

Discrepancy in City’s Median Income

Funding for housing programs is based on the area median income as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The District is at a disadvantage because HUD defines the AMI to include all of the D.C. Metro Region, which means more affluent parts of Maryland and  Virginia affect the data.

Pass Social Security Protections

Jennifer McLaughlin makes the case for House Resolution 4547, the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018

Photo of marchers carrying signs about poverty, love and justice.

After 50 years, organizers reignite MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign

Earlier this month organizers hosted a mass meeting in D.C. as a revival of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, where grassroots activists and clergy leaders called for an end to systematic racism, inequality, and other forms of oppression in the District.

How inequality became the big issue troubling the world’s top economists

After a riveting keynote speech from Neil McInroy at this year’s Global Street Paper Summit, it is clear that social inequality is becoming a greater focus for economists. In a recent feature for The Conversation, Steve Schifferes, professor of financial journalism at the University of London, takes a deeper look at why social issues are increasingly being viewed as an economic problem.