As in any other playoff, candidate rhetoric let loose during the U.S. presidential race can be tough. We’ve held a front row seat to the 2012 showdown for over a year, with tensions still rising as the general election looms nearer. Some of the barbs launched along the campaign trail have been laughable: Newt Gingrich’s television ad incriminating Mitt Romney for his ability to speak French comes to mind. Others are not. The dialogue surrounding U.S. poverty and inequality, two issues that are hotter than ever during a deep recession that the nation has shown incapable of simply shaking off [...]
Incarceration
Poverty fuels high female imprisonment rate in Oklahoma
Poverty, along with unwed motherhood, sexual abuse, and drug use, help give Oklahoma the highest per-capital women’s incarceration rate in the country. The state imprisons 135 women for every 100,000, compared with a national average of 67. »