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Labor Day scorecard: American workers not doing well

Monday, September 01, 2008 11:46 AM
A Rutgers University study has been released that paints a somber picture for American workers : In its first national labor scorecard, the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations said more than 10 percent of Americans are unemployed, discouraged
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House prevents Bush from sticking it to the poor (again)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:20 PM
By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House
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Reliance on food stamps rising in Tennessee

Monday, April 14, 2008 2:38 PM
According to this KNS story , 407,000 households in Tennessee were enrolled in the federal food stamps program in March. The Census Bureau estimates that there are 2.4 million occupied households in Tennessee; that means 17 percent of households in this
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Far removed from the conscience of the world

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:46 PM
Global Issues has published a run-down of recent statistics on global poverty. Among the startling findings: Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- live on less than two dollars a day. [...] According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each
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Thompson's plan to gut Social Security

Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:40 PM
Not surprisingly, Republican Fred Thompson wants to do away with Social Security and replace it with a privatized system which would benefit those in the upper income brackets and penalize the poor and middle class : Thompson's plan draws on ideas favored
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Child labor in Gap sweatshops

Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:29 PM
This is outrageous : Child workers [in India], some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
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London mayor and Hugo Chavez strike an interesting deal; media bias shows clearly

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:25 PM
London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a deal today with some interesting terms. Venezuela has agreed to sell a certain quantity of oil to the UK at a 20 percent discount, as long as it's used only for London's public
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A couple of notes on poverty

Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 AM
One of the flashpoint issues of the 1965 Watts riot was the lack of a hospital in that inner-city LA district. As a result of the riots, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was built. Its recent failures of care and performance have made headlines;
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A non-apology from the Pope

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:05 PM
The Pope faced pretty much global opprobrium and condemnation for his foot-in-mouth proclamation that the Catholic-led invasion of the Americas "had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples" and that the invaders "purified" the natives, apparently
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Rep. Tim Ryan falls off the food stamp wagon

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:19 PM
I blogged here about the four members of Congress who pledged to live on the equivalent of food stamps for one week and their challenge to their colleagues to do the same; this meant they could spend no more than $21 per person on food for the entire
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