Tag: poverty
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January 30, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
It is estimated that there are 19,000 homeless people living in Detroit. This man in the photo, who has not been identified, was found in the elevator shaft of an abandoned warehouse. . . .
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September 13, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
I will never forget the site of this woman. She begged for a living. She sat everyday in the corner by the "farmacia." She picked and groomed her long witch-like . . .
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December 04, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
I made a new friend the other day.
I had walked to the drugstore. I always walk, if I can avoid driving. I don't like to give my money to the oil companies and I can use the exercise. . . .
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January 30, 2009 05:27 PM EST --
I found this article, and it was very disturbing to me, especially knowing that this really goes on all the time. Not only do they jail the homeless to "improve the appearance" of their . . .
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September 01, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
Apparently, according to unemployment, it's much preferable to do nothing rather than to go back to school. Because Aus is going back to school, when he filed for unemployment last week (they make . . .
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July 27, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
WASHINGTON – More than 200 ACORN members from a half-dozen states joined thousands at the Capitol July 24 to celebrate a long-overdue increase in the minimum wage – and to demand further hikes . . .
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June 23, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
Missouri lawmaker on child hunger: ‘Hunger can be a positive motivator.’
In her June newsletter, State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-MO) provided several “commentaries” . . .
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September 04, 2009 05:04 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON – The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical . . .
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November 02, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
NEARLY half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed. . . .
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January 25, 2009 10:42 PM EST --
built my house of cards
wish i had used superglue
winds are picking up...
ccl 2009
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July 31, 2007 08:03 AM EDT --
With all the sickness and poverty in the world, why are we bying 3 expensive cars, and huge mansions? Why do we waste all our money on unimportant, unnecessary things? People die of hunger and we pay money . . .
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October 04, 2009 01:54 PM EDT --
Friends,
I'd like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I'm sure, . . .
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December 19, 2007 02:53 PM EST --
I hate Christmas shopping.
Don't get me wrong. I like giving gifts as much as the next guy. I like being able to pick something out for someone that they wouldn't normally buy for themselves. . . .
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August 30, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
excerpt from article by By RICK LYMAN article in N.Y. Times, August 30, 2006
The nation's median household income rose slightly faster than inflation last year for the first time in six years, the . . .
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February 29, 2008 10:54 PM EST --
If you haven't been paying attention (or don't) to the news, you might have missed Senator Clinton 's new proposals to eliminate child poverty, as if somehow one could do so while their . . .
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December 02, 2006 11:06 AM EST --
I read a very inspiring and informative speech last night by John Edwards. If you've read some of my other posts, you know I've made no secret that he's my presidential candidate, if . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
On Saturday night, Rick Warren, pastor and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life , sat down with Barak Obama and John McCain at his megachurch in California and asked them some tough questions. . . .
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June 20, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
This week the newly “Independent” Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, unveiled the key initiative of his Center for Economic Opportunity. It is called “Opportunity NYC” . . .
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September 19, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
This article appeared in the New York Times today. Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards are asking for everyone's help to write in and block a new Bush initiative that would allow health workers . . .
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