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Social Innovations

Microfinance for the Most Marginalized

Small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people.

By Christopher J. Varady & Mila Gavrilova | Fall 2009
 
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Global Issues

Research: Why They Stayed

New research reveals the economic hardships that Katrina's "stayers" were battling and the abundance of negative opinions about them.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2009
 

Government

Research: Not Racing to Help

Racism may have played a role in the government's delayed response to Katrina.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2009
 
SEX TRAFFICKING:
Inside the Business
of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara

Government

An Unconscionable Business

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara

Reviewed By Holly Burkhalter | Winter 2009
 

Global Issues

Research: Starting Up Women

Successful entrepreneurs show characteristics of both men and women.

By Alana Conner | Winter 2009
 
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Government

Research: A Soldier’s Life for Her

The military's better than civilian life, say minorities and women such as Marine Corps Capt. Elizabeth Okoreeh-Baah, the first woman to pilot the V-22 Osprey.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2008
 
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Government

Dropping the Ball

Why the Soccer Ball Project—one of the world's first multistakeholder efforts to stop abuses of labor rights—is failing to protect workers in Pakistan.

By Anthony Ewing | Fall 2008
 
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Philanthropy

They’ve Got Your Back

The Posse Foundation sends diverse students to college together so that they can lean on each other and lead their schools.

By Chitua Alozie | Fall 2008
 

Government

Opening the Asylum Doors

THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey

By Stephen P. Hinshaw | Fall 2008
 

Business

Beyond CSR

How companies can respect human rights.

By Christine Bader | Fall 2008