Published On Wed Jun 30 2010 By Carol Goar While world leaders were discussing bank taxes, deficit reduction and global economic stability, a handful of Canadian economists was debating a matter that...Richards’ “success story” melts away in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 recession and whether Yalnizyan’s plea for more humane poverty reduction policies elicits any response. source: The Toronto Star
...Telegraph, Duncan Smith said he wanted to make it easier for the long-term unemployed to move to areas where they could find work by changing the rules relating to council tenancy. "The middle class do this all the time," he said. "You have a house, if you have to move work, you use that as a portable asset ... Why is it that for a group of people on low incomes, we leave them trapped, rather...
Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants. In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting...that are discriminating against the unemployed will take into consideration that this choice is only further contributing to long-term unemployment in our country." via the The Huffington Post
In California, Barbara Harris's Project Prevention has been accused of back-door eugenics. Now she's touring British cities To many people, Barbara Harris is a dangerous woman. A maverick "do-gooder"...would not be surprised if they target poor WOC more than anyone. I think this campaign is nasty and coercive, and it's disturbing how many people seem to think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
The wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has grown by fourfold over the course of Generation X’s lifetime, exploding to $95,000, a study released today found. And the debt burden among African American...are awash in predatory financial products, ranging from subprime home loans to check cashing joints, and that has helped propel a lopsided and unsustainable economic trajectory. via Race Wire
Who receive abortions in the United States? That's the question asked by the Guttmacher Institute in a just-released survey. While the demographics remain similar in most respects since the last study...because they want all women to get abortions~" and i informed him that most women who get abortions already have children, and i do like seeing my information confirmed. again. cool story bro?
...:) ETA: So, I guess I forgot to mention it was rather long. The survey is approximately 50 questions, so if you do not have the time or patience to complete it, please do not start it. As I mentioned before, it is a research study (for a university class), so it is meant to gather data. I cannot do that in a 10 question survey. Thank you to all of you have tried to help and completed the survey!
...read (or atleast heard of) Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . In it, Ehrenreich attempts to understand and study the plight of modern working class individuals by going "undercover", stripping herself of academic and professional credentials and forsaking her upper middle class lifestyle to work minimum wage jobs and provide for herself on a...
...bikinis for seven-year-olds has been targeted by all three major parties, with David Cameron declaring the products a "completely disgraceful" example of "premature sexualisation". There is a distinct class element to this puritan agenda. Although the Mumsnet campaign is a broad one, politicians and the press have reserved special disdain for Primark, whose brand has become shorthand for cheap clothing...
Texas Prisons Top Rape List: DOJ Drafts Reform The number of rapes being committed annually in the U.S. prison system is just deplorable. And what’s even more shocking is that the majority of these...Obama gets all kind of nonsense flak from the far right, I think it’s important to note some of the solid, common sense governance we are finally seeing in this country. Nice one Holder. source
