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• Stop Me If You've Heard This Before

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: Surgeon General, Health, Poverty

  described the link between poverty and poor health, urged the U.S. government to help combat widespread diseases as a key aim of its foreign policy, and called on corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate. That correlation between being poor and being sick, and the idea that corporations have

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• empty houses

  Published: March 8, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Poverty Housing

  there are 37,000,000 in poverty. see www.homesezown.com The present system of dealing in REAL ESTATE; lawyers, title companies, realtors, appraisers, lenders-and all others who require certain ’standards’ and associated expenses have CAUSED the millions of empty houses by making the legal work too expensive and complicated.

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• Dept. Of Brother Can You Spare A Dime?: Sad, Poor Americans Finally Give Up On Republicans, God

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: 2008, Democrats, Depression, Dept Of Brother Can You Spare Dime, God, Gop, Poverty, Republicans

  A shocking new study by the Pew Research Center proves that Americans overwhelmingly identify themselves as Democrats today — 50% compared to 35% who say they’re Republicans. And...

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• Dept. Of Brother Can You Spare A Dime?: Sad, Poor Americans Finally Give Up On Republicans, God

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: 2008, Democrats, Depression, Dept Of Brother Can You Spare Dime, God, Gop, Poverty, Republicans

  A shocking new study by the Pew Research Center proves that Americans overwhelmingly identify themselves as Democrats today — 50% compared to 35% who say they’re Republicans. And they’re increasingly weary of religion, religious conservatives, stagnant and shrinking wages, income inequality and the sad toil of their miserable

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• Sweet Beginnings: How Work Can Work by Jim Wallis

  Published: August 14, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Economy, Poverty

  Last week I received an interesting package in the mail from Sweet Beginnings LLC, a Chicago-based neighborhood non-profit "committed to training and employing residents who are often locked out of the traditional labor market due to past criminal records and other barriers to employment." Opening the large cardboard box, I discovered two of

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• Politicians & The Inflation Disconnect

  Published: August 15, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: U S World Economy, Politics U S, Globalization, Healthcare, 2008 Presidential Election, Poverty, 2008 Congressional Elections

  The President and a number of politicians are scratching their heads as they attempt to understand why average Americans aren’t all that enthused about the U.S. economy. The solution to this “puzzling” lack of optimism is found in a new article at McClatchy News…and it clearly demonstrates the degree to which our elected

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• Is it too much to ask for Democrats to stop trashing the United States?

  Published: August 20, 2007, 5:15 am

  Tags: Politics, American Politicians, Democrats, Hypocrites, Japan, Japanese News, John Edwards, Poverty, Ted Kennedy

  to look at their lies about poverty in the US. It was just the other day that one of my Japanese friends was telling me how glad he was to be in Japan and not the US, considering the terrible poverty that we have in the US. I couldn’t believe my ears. But my friend was simply repeating what he had heard translated on a Japanese news

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• Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Poor

  Published: August 20, 2007, 11:50 pm

  Tags: Healthcare, Bush Arrogance, Poverty

  above 250 percent of the poverty level. Before making such a change, Mr. Smith said, states must demonstrate that they have enrolled at least 95 percent of children in the state below 200 percent of the federal poverty level who are eligible for either Medicaid or the child health program. In his letter, Mr. Smith said the new standards

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• Fred Barnes: Journalist, Apologist, Magician?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Politics U S, Iraq, Social Insecurity, Katrina, 2008 Presidential Election, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Poverty, 2008 Congressional Elections, Immigration Issues

  Fred Barnes, in an editorial at the Wall Street Journal, offers his manifesto for Republican resurgence. Unfortunately, from my perspective, the piece is a textbook demonstration of the degree to which GOP insiders haven’t a clue with regards to the concerns of ordinary Americans as well as the existing political realities. Even worse, much

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• How Poor is Poor Enough?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Conservative Statism, Conservative Social Science For Dummies, Poverty

  the NY Times report that poverty is down in the US though uninsurance rates are up, the Heritage Foundation has posted a maddening document: "How Poor are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America." Don't you just love the use of scare quotes to tip us off, right off the bat, that the Heritage Foundation doesn't think

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• Survival in terms of mugs of coffee

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: The Economy, Governance, Arroyo Administration, Ibon Foundation, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Philippines, Poverty, Sole Breadwinners

  A FEW coins less than the price of four tall mugs of coffee from your favorite coffee shop, or P278.76 per day, is the amount a family of six needs to meet its basic needs to survive in Metro Manila these days, according to the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR). But how do people [...]

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• Reclaiming Katrina's Missed Opportunity /by Adam Taylor/

  Published: August 30, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Poverty

  giants of inequality and poverty. It seems almost providential timing that at the same moment we commemorate Katrina, the Census Bureau releases its annual statistics on poverty. The Census report provides almost a national CAT skan of our nation's health. This year's report offers a glimmer of good news in that the number of people

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• Wages In Texas Not Up To Par For Many

  Published: August 31, 2007, 1:06 am

  Tags: Basic Needs, Salaries, Poverty Level, Texas

  federal poverty level for a family of four is $20,650. But will this meet the basic needs for a family of four in Texas? Not according to the Center for Public Policy Priorities. This Austin-based non-partisan group did a study to find how much income would be required to meet a family's needs.They found that a family of four would need from

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• Quick Hits - Iraq, GOP Fems, and McMansion Bailouts

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Politics U S, Iraq, Labor, Blogging, Poverty, Propaganda Catapulting

  A couple of great blog postings have crossed my email inbox today, and I thought I’d share them: Booman picks up on an absolutely absurd occurrence in Iraq during a recent visit by a GOP congressional delegation. I’m not even going to tell you what it’s about. You have to go read it - it’s that crazy. But here’s

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• NOLA revisited

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Bush, Psychology, Activism Blogging Wed, Katrina Rita, Economics Money Poverty, Politics

  Today is the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina coming ashore in New Orleans, Louisiana. I dreaded writing this post and have avoided it for days. Why is it so hard to write about this? I am safe and dry, having been in my current home for years. I have no painful memories of living in Louisiana, I personally know no one who is now a

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