Poverty | -America’s middle class shrinks as poverty expands-

America’s middle class is in sharp decline, and many people are falling into a state of poverty. For readers who have the time and inclination, it’s worth reading up on some of the commentary about the economic times in which we live. I’ve gathered and excerpted news reports and analyses from assorted newspapers, periodicals, and online [...]

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Poverty | -Poverty and America: The Four Lost Decades-

From an article by the New Yorker's John CassidyThe latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well covered in the Times and elsewhere: 46 million Americans living under the poverty line in 2010, the highest number since the Commerce Department started collecting [...]

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Unemployment | -Economic Fact Sheet – EPI-

Just how serious in the economic recession that the United States finds itself in? Check out the "Labor Day by the Numbers 2o11" fact sheet produced by the Economic Policy Institute and published Septemebr 5,2011. In it you will discover that: The economy needs 11.2 million jobs to regain its pre-recession level of employment. In August [...]

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Tony Blair | -a lesson to learn from TB on extreme violence-

Tony Blair is on holidays and so has not commented on the riots yet. But in a controversial and open speech, made shortly before his departure, the former Prime Minister already got to the core of the problem. Violence is group or gang related and not so much about economic inequality but opportunistic criminality. Speaking [...]

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London|-these are mindless riots, but that doesn’t make them pointless.-

Sorry to point this out to you, but these are not pointless riots. Yes, they are sickening, and I condemn them wholeheartedly. But this does not mean that there are no underlying problems in British society that are likely to have accentuated these violent conflicts. Thuggish looting on our television screens demonstrates a group of [...]

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The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution.

The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution When Empire Hits Home, Part 3 Global Research, April 7, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series, "When Empire Hits Home." Part 1: War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty Part 2: Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class As nations [...]

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Man Robs Bank of $1 To Gain Access To Health Care.

James Richard Verone of North Carolina wanted to rob the bank in order to go to jail and get medical coverage. He was laid off from Coca Cola three years ago and found employment as a convenience clerk, but lost his health insurance. He began to notice a protrusion in his chest. He developed arthritis [...]

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Apples Top Most Pesticide Contaminated List; Onions Are Least Contaminated.

Oldspeak:"In this age of preservative/pesticide – laden industrialized food production, an apple a day could give you cancer. A recent Environmental Working Group report found that 92% of apples contained two or more pesticides. Even after washing and peeling apples are found to have a high amount of pesticide residue. 'Pesticides are known to be toxic [...]

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