Poverty Draft

The US military’s recruiting crisis, explained.

Nicole Young argues that Black people’s conscription into America’s endless war-making machine only ensures they will never be safe.

 Los resultados de las pruebas, que ya estaban cayendo antes de la pandemia, se desplomaron y en los últimos años se ha producido una oleada de huelgas docentes por las malas condiciones laborales y por recibir salarios no muy por encima del nivel de pobreza.  

 Test scores, which were already falling before the pandemic, took a nosedive, and recent years have seen a blitz in teacher strikes over poor working conditions and being paid wages not far above the poverty level.  

A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools.

Military recruiters count on economic hardship to lure young people of color to sign up. Counter-recruiters are working hard to thwart their efforts.

With pandemic restrictions easing, military recruiters are returning to high school campuses while anti-recruitment efforts struggle