Cryptocurrency Helps the Poor? Don’t Bank on It

Despite marketing spin, Facebook’s Libra, like any cryptocurrency, would have done nothing to address poverty.

By Asress Gikay | December 23, 2019 | Economics, Government | Banking, Bitcoin, Bitpesa, Cryptocurrency, Currency, Facebook, Finance, International Development, Investment, Libra, Poverty, Unbanked

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Podcast #29: Jim Keenan on Environmentalism, Justice, and Faith

Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.

By Mo Lotman | March 27, 2019 | Community, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Family, Human Rights, Philosophy, Podcasts, Religion, Society | Abuse, Accountability, Amoris Laetitia, Bioethics, Boston College, Canon, Capitalism, Cardinals, Catholicism, Charlie Curran, David Satcher, Disease, Divorce, Ecumenicalism, Education, Environment, Equality, Gender, Genetic Engineering, Greed, Hierarchy, Honesty, Image, Immigration, Interdenominationalism, Jesuits, Justice, Labor, Laudato Si, Malaria, Marriage, Mother Teresa, Ordaining Women, Ordination, Paul Ramsey, Playing God, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Poverty, Power, Privilege, Protestantism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Social Justice, Socialism, St. Ignatius, Stewart Brand, Surgeon General, Sustainability, The Bible, The Jesuit Institute, Theology, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Working Class

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Cash Crunch: Your Money’s No Good Here

As some businesses stop taking cash, the poor, those without smartphones, and those who value privacy will be further excluded from the economy.

By Eric J. Francis | November 26, 2018 | Economics, Law, Privacy | Amazon, Bitcoin, Cash, Crime, Cryptocurrency, Debit Cards, Dollars, Fraud, Government, Internet, Mobile Banking, Money, Poverty, Privacy, Smartphones, Southwest, Sweetgreen, Tax Evasion, Unbanked

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Warped Incentives Cultivated by US Industrial Agriculture

Industrial agriculture has increased the food supply, but it has done so at tremendous cost to the environment, food quality, health, and family farming.

By Samantha Maxwell | September 13, 2017 | Agriculture, Culture, Environment, Food, Health, Society | Agriculture, Chemicals, Diabetes, Family Farms, Farmers Markets, Flavor, Food Deserts, GMOs, Green Cart, Health, Industrial Agriculture, Junk Food, Land, Local Food, Low-Income, Monocrops, Monoculture, Nutrition, Poverty, Processed Foods, Roundup, Sustainability, Third World, Vandana Shiva

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