Venezuela Helps Low Income Families
The Venezuelan-owned Oil Company Citgo, together with the organization Citizen’s Energy, will provide about 460,000 energy efficient light bulbs to low-income households throughout the U.S., according...
View ArticleWhat Will The Bailout Failure Mean To The Poor?
This is from the Progressive Policy Institute’s Moving Up Blog: The House voted against the economic bailout with 226 members voting against and 207 for it, causing the Dow to drop as much as 700...
View ArticleThe Working Poor
A report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project reveals that more than 28 percent of American families with one or both parents employed are living in poverty. The report, “Still Working...
View ArticleFatty Foods Effects Everything
The debate rages on over the amount of obesity there is in the US…I have heard that it is 6 out of 10 people are overweight. Back in the day when I was employed as an electrician for a local housing...
View ArticleRepublicans Must Bridge the Income Gap – NYTimes.com
This is where the GOP can start winning in national elections……but will they actually start showing concern for the disappearing middle class? Republicans Must Bridge the Income Gap – NYTimes.com.
View ArticleIncome Inequality
It seems that the more the term is used the more it is becoming the latest buzz term….a dog whistle for the Left…..the Left? I am so tired of that term! There is NO one in Washington that is on the...
View ArticleWho makes minimum wage? | Pew Research Center
Is just me or is the news about as interesting as watching flies mate? We had a bit of a debate about minimum age a few days back……I though I would add this piece to the debate….. Who makes minimum...
View ArticleThe Increasingly Unequal States of America: Income Inequality by State, 1917...
I know that there are some that do not want to hear this….that some of these people are lazy or fraudulent……but the fact is whether anyone wants to hear it or not…….the inequality is growing…..and if...
View ArticleAsshole Of The Day, Is Andrea Kieffer Asshole of the Day?
There are many conversations we as a society should be having…….education, race, inequality…..what we need is less talk more action….maybe idiots will drive the nation into action… Maybe this lady can...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s sorry invention: The GOP’s self-appointed poverty warrior coins...
You want a good chuckle today? Remember back when Ryan was the VP candidate? He called people that need help as “TAKERS”…..remember? Anyway he is the GOP’s point man on the “income equality”...
View ArticleBestiality Equals Higher Minimum Wage
The weekend begins and I was searching for something interesting for my readers….other than the mindless crap that the news produces daily…..something strange and unusual….something that would have my...
View ArticleWhy Do Some Americans Stay Poor
There is one aspect of American society that confuses many people especially those in other countries…..American poverty. Many sociologists, economist and other social scientists have tried to explain...
View ArticleThe Promise Of Wages
I follow Speaker Ryan on Twitter because his daily Tweets can get a real person laughing for most of the day. His Tweets since the tax cuts of 2017 are about how much better off the economy is at this...
View ArticleClosing Thought–30Jun20
This pandemic has proved to be a bitch for us mere mortals……the loss of employment and such has done nothing to improve the inequalities of our system….. The idea of a minimum income goes back as far...
View ArticleTrump’s Family Attacks
The final push for the vote in 2020 and I want to just help the info out if you are still trying to decide which old fart gets your vote. Let’s look at Trump policies toward families and then you tell...
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