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Prisons in Latin AmericaThe often horrifying conditions in Latin American prisons receive relatively little attention in the United States.
Raising the Minimum Wage
Nowhere in the United States is it possible for a full-time worker earning the minimum wage to rent a one-bedroom apartment at market rates.
Articles
The Living Wage and Catholic Social Teaching
Should people who work still be poor? Few argue that they should. Yet the federal minimum wage remains a shocking $5.15 an hour.
The Making of a Catholic Labor Leader
The sky over Washington Square hung cloudy and gray, as if it reflected the mood of a group of New York University graduate students gathering there.
The Demise of Workers' Rights
It is both sad and ironic that the National Labor Relations Board, the independent federal agency created during the Depression to safeguard the workers’ right to unionize, has instead been complicit
Books and Culture
Culture
Winston Churchill launched Operation Gomorrah, ordering high-explosive and incendiary bombs to be dropped on the city of Hamburg on July
Books
This volume, exquisitely edited by Kenneth Himes, O.F.M., is a superb contribution to Catholic social ethics and will undoubtedly serve as a
Books
Can anyone seriously doubt that sustained reflection on the topic of peacemaking is among the most urgent tasks facing humankind?
Books
In his poem God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins calls it the dearest freshness deep down things; and in his Book of Pilgrimage, Rai
Film
March of the Penguins quietly took mainstream America by storm last year with its surprisingly dramatic story of emperor
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