Jo Erickson

Jo Erickson is a Mint Press investigative journalist and producer specializing in criminal and social justice as well as politics. She worked as the BBC’s News and Current Affairs Producer, breaking the news of the 2011 London riots while also covering African affairs and human rights. She has been published in The Guardian, The Daily Mirror and various U.K. publications. She has worked as an undercover journalist and filmed documentaries for the BBC exposing crime and terrorism. Contact Jo at [email protected] .

Should Middle Class Americans Really Be So Down?

Data suggests that despite high social spending, average Swedish and French people lag behind the US middle class in economic well being.

Jo Erickson
Par Jo Erickson

Middle class Americans have taken a hit over the last few years with sluggish economic growth, an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent and a flat housing market. Most worrying to the middle class is that there are still no signs of a recovery as they struggle to meet the rising cost of living. So would the American middle class be better off living in,

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Does The Komen Foundation’s Pink Ribbon Campaign Actually Help Fight Breast Cancer?

Critics say more than just “awareness” is needed to prevent the disease — and that many ribbon-branded products themselves contain carcinogens.

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Par Jo Erickson

  Last year, the fast-food chain KFC joined a national campaign to raise money and awareness by selling pink-branded buckets of fried chicken. This year, the White House was turned pink for breast cancer awareness month. The symbolic pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness can be seen everywhere, slapped onto products like lipstick or the

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Napolitano Dedicates 5M In Financial Aid to Illegal Immigrant College Students

Janet Napolitano is taking a much softer stance on undocumented immigrants as UC’s president than she did as the Homeland Security secretary.

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Par Jo Erickson

What a difference a few months can make. Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security and now the new President of the University of California system, is making a U-turn on immigration. This time she’s not deporting undocumented immigrants, but giving them money instead. The new UC president says she will dedicate $5 million of

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Un sport dangereux : le cas de l'ancien arrière de la NFL Kevin Turner

Le sport préféré de l'Amérique est sous le feu des projecteurs alors que d'anciens joueurs révèlent le lourd tribut qu'ils ont payé pour jouer au jeu de gladiateurs américain.

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Par Jo Erickson

Former Philadelphia Eagles fullback Kevin Turner talks about his fight with the NFL and his awareness campaign on the long-term consequences of head injuries sustained while playing football. America’s favorite sport is under the spotlight as former players reveal the heavy price they have paid for playing the gladiatorial all-American

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Iraq War Veteran Chante Wolfe On The Role Of Private Security Companies

Former Iraq veteran reveals the true nature of war and the role that mercenaries play in Afghanistan.

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Par Jo Erickson

[soundcloud id='115651871'] In an interview with Chante Wolfe, former Iraq veteran she reveals the true nature of war and the role that mercenaries play in Afghanistan. As the world media spotlight fixes to the Syria crisis, hidden from view is the continuing bloody war raging in Afghanistan, where civilian casualties are escalating. Adding

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White Supremacist Coup-Plotters Sentenced In South Africa

A group of South Africans has been found responsible for a series of bombings and a failed plot to murder Nelson Mandela.

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Par Jo Erickson

Tuesday’s sentencing of several White supremacists hopefully closes a brutal and bloody chapter of South Africa’s apartheid past. Mike du Toit, the mastermind behind a White supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive Blacks out of South Africa, has been jailed for 35 years after a decade-long trial. Mike du Toit, his brother Andre

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Obama Scrapes Bottom Of The Political Barrel In Search Of NSA Surveillance Support

As a bona fide scandal over NSA phone-tapping erupts in Europe, international support for the president is dwindling.

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Par Jo Erickson

In a week when international diplomacy was rocked by reports of new levels of dirty tricks by the U.S. administration and the NSA’s spying program, President Obama is receiving unexpected help from the most unlikely of allies. On Sunday, the U.S. administration was called out and forced to defend the NSA’s full-scale, international Cold War-style

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