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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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Four members of Congress try living on food stamps

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:03 PM
A while back, I blogged about the governor of Oregon and his wife living on food stamps for a week as a means of educating the public and lawmakers about the plight of the poor. Their budget was $21 per week, which works out to $1 per person per meal
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One horrible, tragic story

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:20 PM
This story has haunted me ever since I read it this morning . I cannot get these poor people out of my mind. I mean, what kind of deplorable monster would do this? Just three months ago, their adult daughter abandoned them in Gatlinburg with no home,
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What globalization hath wrought: 1.8 million jobs lost to China

Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:01 PM
Since 2001, unfettered trade with China has directly resulted in the loss of 1.8 million US jobs , and they won't be coming back: Contrary to the predictions of its supporters, China's entry into the WTO has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the
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TN toll road proposal hits a speed bump

Friday, April 27, 2007 11:51 AM
The pending proposal to allow toll roads in Tennessee has hit a minor snag : the state legislature wants final say-so over each toll road project. TDOT, on the other hand, insists that oversight and accountability aren't necessary: Sen. Doug Jackson,
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Oregon Governor lives on food stamps for a week

Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:35 PM
To highlight the inadequate funding behind the food stamp program, Gov. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon challenged Oregonians to try and feed themselves for $3 per day for one week; that's apparently the average that an Oregonian on food stamps receives. To
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