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COMMENTARY: How COVID-19 Stole My Life
I was just hired on for a new job that started just three months ago. I should say that it took me more time to acquire this job than the amount of time it took for COVID-19 to snatch it from my hands.
COMMENTARY: The agricultural immigrant conundrum in Europe and the U.S.
By Profe. Gonzalo Santos
The vital, indispensable, highly valuable role “guest” foreign farm workers play in the food supply of Europe has now become evident, demonstrating that their customary low status, criminalization, and stigmatization is entirely a social construction, artificially imposed on these hard workers so as to super-exploit them, keep them from asserting their labor rights, anddiscard them as a cheap, flexible, disposable “factor of production.”
COMMENTARY: To survive the Coronavirus, Americans must learn from Mexicans
BY DR. ÁLVARO HUERTA
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the U.S. (and beyond), it behooves Americans to learn from individuals of Mexican origin in el norte about the art of survival in a time of crisis.
COMMENTARY: Living in crisis has been people’s ‘normal’ for generations; why wait for pandemic to do something about it?
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of low-income, undocumented, and other marginalized communities had been living paycheck to paycheck and struggling financially to make ends meet for their families.
COMMENTARY: Why did it take a pandemic to recognize the need in foster youth?
It isn’t all that uncommon for former foster youth to live in poverty after transitioning out of the Foster Care System.
COMMENTARY: It takes a special person to be a great foster parent
When people think of foster care, they often think of the youth in the system. But foster parents play a key role in helping these youth grow into responsible young adults.