When the county doesn’t have money for Pauper’s Burials and the citizens don’t have money to bury their dead loved ones…they stay frozen (h/t Post Bourgie) Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the [...]
Isn’t splitting cost a benefit to getting married? or are there a lack of subsidies and/or tax incentives in Japan for married couples? Mr Aso was asked whether poverty was making people marry later, contributing to Japan’s low birth rate. His response was: ”Young people had better not get married with little money.” He added [...]
Mike Davis posits that slums are ground zero for pandemics. Mega-slums are where pandemics gain new life. Mike Davis, a recipient of the MacArthur “genius” award, is author of The Planet of Slums. The following is adapted from an interview with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels. The global pandemics we see today tend to originate and [...]