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Raise the Wage: Value Work, Value Worker Dignity

Across the country campaigns to "raise the wage" at the local, state and the federal levels are growing. The Ignatian Solidarity Network in partnership with the U.S. Jesuit Conference have collaborated to support the dignity of workers nationally via advocacy to "raise the wage" at the federal level.
Child detainees sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility (Reuters/Eric Gay/Pool)
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Unaccompanied Children: Something is Not Right In Our Hemisphere

Over the past month, the media has been filled with theories about why unaccompanied Central American children are streaming across our border in record numbers.
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White Savior Industrial Complex? To Volunteer or Not

In my missions here I have lived in their homes, been in the middle of their arguments, seen their tears and cried with them, witnessed the stress of financial problems and felt the terror in the lack of basic resources and amenities.