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Suffocating the Poor: A Modern Parable
By Johann Hari I want to tell you the story of how our governments have been torturing and tormenting an island in the Caribbean - but it is a much bigger story than that. It's a parable explaining one... ...
Poverty and Economic Crisis
Home Prices Drop in 36 States 8 Million Foreclosure-Bound Homes to Hit the Market; Prices to Stagnate for a Decade. http://globalecon omicanalysis.blogspot.com/ 2010/09/home-prices-drop-i n-36-states-beazer.html... ...
300 Economists Warn Obama: Grave Danger Ahead
By Bryce Covert This is not the time for balancing the budget and slashing the deficit, it is "the time for bold initiatives to rebuild America and to generate jobs and growth." http://www.infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle26382.htm... ...
America's Decoupling from Reality
http://www.commondreams.or g/view/2010/09/17-3 Pover ty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine http://www.commondre ams.org/view/2010/09/17-5 Suffocating the Poor: A Modern Parable http://www.commond reams.org/view/2010/09/17- 11 -------- How... ...
Middle Class Continues To Be Slowly Wiped Out
http://www.lewrockwell.com /rep/15-shocking-poverty-s tats.html https://sharen ews.twoday.net/search?q=mi ddle+class https://sharenew s.twoday.net/search?q=US+p overty ...
How the Rich Conduct Class Warfare
Do you know that between 1979 to 2007 income for the bottom fifth of the country went up by just 16%, but for the top 1% income it went up a staggering 281%? http://www.informat ionclearinghouse.info/arti cle26366.htm... ...
Surge in Housing Supply Will Drive Down Prices
By Mike Whitney Home ownership has become an albatross. Prices are falling, demand is weak, foreclosures have skyrocketed, and inventory is backed up to the moon. If there's an upside, it's hard to see. http://www.informati onclearinghouse.info/artic le26367.htm... ...
US Poverty Rate Expected to Post a Record Increase
By Hope Yen Should those estimates hold true, some 45 million people in this country, or more than 1 in 7, were poor last year. It would be the highest single-year increase since the government began... ...
17 Percent of America in Anti-Poverty Programs
One out of every six Americans are in government anti-poverty programs, according to USA TODAY. More than 50 million Americans are in Medicaid. Forty million receive food stamps and 10 million receive... ...
U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis'
By Jeff Nielson The Obama regime has to "go big, or go home." It must either engage in massive (genuine) stimulus of the U.S. economy -- meaning a multi-trillion dollar commitment, or simply allow the... ...