Research Guides: Basic Needs Research: Find Basic Needs in the News

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Global and National Coverage

Suggested search terms (include the quotation marks!): "basic needs" OR "food insecurity" OR "housing insecurity"

Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Indigenous publications from a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and British Columbia, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada and Oklahoma.
An Indigenous perspective on the civil rights era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation. Coverage: 1828 - 2016.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Human rights and basic needs issues, including international sources for news, journal articles, and more.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Articles from international, national, and regional newspapers, newswires, and news sites. It includes access to major United States newspapers, such as, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Coverage 1980-present.
Middle Eastern Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 30 current, full text news sources in English and French from across the Arab World, Southwest Asia and surrounding countries. Some of the sources have been translated from Arabic to English by the publisher. Includes BBC MonitoringMiddle East.
Newswire This link opens in a new window
Provides near real-time access to world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
WSJ full-text articles, no images. Coverage: 1984 to today.

Regional and Local Coverage

Suggested search terms (include the quotation marks!): "basic needs" OR "food insecurity" OR "housing insecurity"

Albuquerque Business First (via Westlaw) This link opens in a new window
Albuquerque and New Mexico weekly business news publication. Coverage: 2006-present.
New Mexico Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Newspaper articles from the Albuquerque Journal (coverage: 1995-current), Las Cruces Sun-News (coverage: 2004-current), and Roswell Daily Record (coverage: 2002-current).
South Central US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access to the Albuquerque Journal (1995 - current) and The Santa Fe New Mexican (1994 - current), and indexes the New Mexico Business Journal (1985-1998).

Higher Education

Suggested search terms (include the quotation marks!): "basic needs" OR "food insecurity" OR "housing insecurity".

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
What are colleges and universities in the U.S.A. seeing and doing when it comes to basic needs?