the WE project news

From PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/column-trauma-police-dont-post-videos

From The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/28/rikers-doesn-t-put-teens-in-solitary-other-new-york-jails-do?ref=hp-1-100

From The Washington Post : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/racial-segregation-doesnt-just-belong-to-the-south-it-belongs-to-all-of-us/2018/03/27/82bc9ae4-31ee-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html?utm_term=.b92e9662241e

Follow-up in a major story published in The New York Times last week: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/reader-questions-about-race-gender-and-mobility.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

From The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/upshot/census-citizenship-hispanics-immigrants-mistrust.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

From The Washington Post : https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sacramento-simmers-with-tension-in-wake-of-fatal-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark/2018/03/24/bfb336f8-2f71-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.a8d4f8ae58e2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/march-for-our-lives-faces/?utm_term=.ba43adf4f898

From The Washington Post 's coverage, which I applaud for its diversity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/march-for-our-lives-in-photos/?utm_term=.933822f6c092

From The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/02/28/guantanamo-forever

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/faces-of-resistance-blair-imani/5888e5282a9a555b42c9b9d8?playlist=5a99af24cc59160008d55542

From The New York Times ' Opinion pages: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/civil-rights.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

MYTH: Immigrants are a drain on our social services. FACT: By paying taxes and Social Security, immigrants contribute far more to government coffers than they use in social services. In its landmark report published in 1997—arguably the most thorough national study to date of immigration’s fiscal impacts—the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that on average, immigrants generate public revenue that exceeds their public costs over time—approximately $80,000 more in taxes than they receive in state, federal and local benefits over their life times.1 This same conclusion was reached in 2007 by the Council of Economic Advisers in their report to the Executive Office of the President where they state that “the long-run impact of immigration on public budgets is likely to be positive,” and agree with the NRC report’s view that “only a forward-looking projection of taxes and government spending can offer an accurate picture of the long-run fiscal co...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gratuitous-cruelty-by-homeland-security-separating-a-7-year-old-from-her-mother/2018/03/04/98fae4f0-1bff-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html?utm_term=.e111e692132d

According to a report issued by the Economic Policy Institute last Monday, and I’m quoting The Washington Post , “Fifty years after the historic Kerner Commission identified 'white racism' as the key cause of 'pervasive discrimination in employment, education and housing,' there has been no progress in how African Americans fare in comparison to whites when it comes to homeownership, unemployment and incarceration.” Here is an article in The Marshall Project on the issue of police reform 50 years after the Kerner Report: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/01/the-kerner-omission?ref=hp-2-111

Yet another reminder of the fallacies spread about immigration in this country: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-american-workers-are-hurt-by-immigration-but-after-ice-raided-this-texas-town-they-never-showed-up/2018/03/04/8ce16362-1d65-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html?utm_term=.9d4f836dde09