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  • VENEZUELA : Breaking Imperial Ties: Venezuela and ALBA By: Tim Anderson - Green Left Weekly
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, Mar 27, 2006 In late 2005, while war raged in the Middle East and oil prices rose drastically, governments and oil companies repeated the “market forces” mantra, saying there was nothing they could do about oil prices. However, the Venezuelan government-owned US-based petrol distribution company Citgo (with eight refineries and 14,000 petrol stations across the US) decided to discount up to 10% of its US sales, so that poor families in cold-weather US states could have access to (…)

  • The Unspeakable Seperation of Wealth
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There are 44 New Billionaires in the US, bringing the total to 374 Americans with a Billion Dollars or more. There are 37 Million Americans living "below the poverty level".
    The official Poverty rate in the US has increased for the last for Consecutive Years as has the number of Billionaires. Almost 400 Billionaires, while there are still 750,000 homeless in the US, 250,000 of them Veterans... why won’t the politicians address this glaring atrocity?
    Forbes on the rising inequality: (…)

  • Numbers up at U.S. soup kitchens, Second Harvest says
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
    WASHINGTON - When Lisa Koch asked several people at a Chicago soup kitchen to complete a survey of the people who eat there, she got a surprising response: "They asked how long it would take because they had to get back to work after lunch."
    A national survey of people eating at soup kitchens, food banks and shelters found that 36 percent came from households in which at least one person had a job. In the Chicago area, it was 39 percent.
    "Even though the economy (…)

  • Making America work for the working poor
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Edwards and John Wilhelm
    IT USED TO BE that poverty was invisible in America. When Michael Harrington published ’’The Other America" in 1960, he wrote about the unseen millions living in inner-city housing projects, in Appalachia, in rural America. The poor were stuck in isolated ghettos, dying towns, and industries that Harrington called the economic underworld of American life. As the rest of the country went to work and prospered, the poor were bypassed.
    Our nation launched a (…)

  • Migden bill raises health care ante for biggest state firms
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SACRAMENTO
    Requires 8% payout for worker benefits, or Medi-Cal funding
    by Greg Lucas
    Sacramento — California’s largest employers would be required to prop up the state’s medical insurance program for the poor if they don’t offer their workers generous enough health benefits under a bill set for introduction in the Senate.
    Modeled after a law passed earlier this month in Maryland that only affected mega-retailer Wal-Mart, the California legislation would require employers of more than (…)

  • Super Bowl City on the Brink
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seahawks vs. Steelers in Detroit will display football’s best teams and America’s worst social malaise: the glaring disparity in wealth.
    By Dave Zirin
    "A celebration of concentrated wealth." That’s what Washington Post sportswriter Tony Kornheiser called the National Football League’s two-week long pre-Super Bowl party binge. Every Super Bowl Sunday, corporate executives and politicians exchange besotted, sodden backslaps, amidst an atmosphere that would shame Jack Abramoff. Only this (…)

  • City of New Orleans plan to "Usufruct" Poor Citizens: Govt to take control of private homes
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW ORLEANS - Officials and community advocates are quietly planting the seeds for an enterprising program that could give the government temporary control over thousands of privately owned homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
    An increasing number of Louisiana housing authorities believe the proposal, based on an arcane legal concept called "usufruct," could be a key to determining whether New Orleans will again be a seminal American city or whether it will stagnate with a population, like (…)

  • Corrupt Congress: Virtually all of the $40 Billion in spending cuts affect the Poor and Young
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new year brings new hope. And in this year it would be nice to see in Washington a new commitment to fiscal restraint and a resolve to bequeath a solvent government and robust economy to future generations.
    To listen to many Republican lawmakers, a move in that direction is underway. In the final hours before it wrapped up on Dec. 21, the Senate approved a five-year, $40 billion deficit reduction package. The measure, set to pass the House of Representatives early this year, would cut (…)

  • Study Finds Rich-Poor Income Gap Growing
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARK JOHNSON
    The disparity between rich and poor is growing in America as the federal minimum wage has remained flat for years, union membership has declined and industries have faced global competition, according to a study released Thursday.
    The report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, both liberal-leaning think tanks, found the incomes of the poorest 20 percent of families nationally grew by an average of $2,660, or 19 percent, over (…)

  • Third World America
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just happened to stumble upon this web site and I now feel compelled to write what I KNOW to be truth. I am an American. Born in the state of Kentucky and I have lived here all my life. I have been in 49 of the other states and during those travels I did see a similarity to my own beloved home of Kentucky. Those similarities are as follows.. Here in my state poverty is RAMPANT. There are no jobs of any decent calibur, only WalMart, McDonalds and the like. The majority of people can afford (…)