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PovertyHow to Get a Job By Shooting Up a ChurchBy David Swanson Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, that the way to solve your problems was to attack liberals - the people who support (albeit ineffectively) workers' rights, union rights, and fair trade, who oppose NAFTA, oppose tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, support investing in job creation at home rather than wars abroad, and want to tax corporations and the super-rich rather than small businesses and working people.
No Minor CrimeMy friend Keith Murphy, host of the best radio show in the United States, The Urban Journal, also makes some great television, including this powerful film focusing on the struggles of young black people in Milwaukee, an industrial city that had seen numerous factory closings: No Minor Crime.
How "Conservatives" Pick Your PocketBy David Swanson "Jacked: How 'Conservatives' Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not)" is a short book by Nomi Prins that makes an excellent education for those remaining Americans who still do not understand that right-wing politicians take from those who work and give to those who live in luxury off the sweat of others. At the end of World War II, corporations paid half the cost of the federal government. They now pay 7 percent, and many of them pay 0 percent. Unless you are very wealthy, you pick up the tab, and the tab has grown. The federal government now spends more than what it spends on everything else on the military alone, and that cost keeps rising.
Kucinich - Out of Iraq and Back to the American CitySo who do want to be President? Out of Iraq and Back to the American City By Dennis J. Kucinich, Democratic Candidate for President of the United States - 10th Annual Wall Street Project Conference - Sheraton New York & Towers, Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 Shameful Milestone Reached For Minimum Wage
Not surprisingly, the prior record also occurred under Republican administrations, when the minimum wage rate remained stagnant from early 1981 until April of 1990 under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. “For nearly a decade, the prices of everyday necessities like gas, food, and prescription drugs have skyrocketed, while the paychecks of minimum wage workers haven’t increased a cent," said Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) over the weekend. "Year after year, the Republican Congress has blocked all attempts to raise the minimum wage, while voting a pay raise for themselves almost every year." An American working 40 hours per week at the current minimum wage makes only $10,712 a year, which is less than $900 a month to cover housing, health care, food and all other living expenses. And, given that most workers being paid minimum wage do not receive health benefits, that salary would barely cover the cost of buying medical insurance alone, much less other necessities. Please, Mr. Bush, I Want Some More
Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security." Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.... (more) Economy booming for billionairesBy Holly Sklar Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only. If you're net worth is a mere $999 million, forget it. A billion means a thousand million, and that's the Forbes 400 minimum -- up from $900 million in 2005. Donald Trump and two of his kids grace the Forbes 400 cover, but ranked No. 94 with $2.9 billion, Trump's a long way from No. 1 Bill Gates with $53 billion. The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is a record-breaking $1.25 trillion. That's about the same amount of combined wealth held by the 57 million households who make up half the U.S. population. GOP Again Defeats Minimum Wage IncreaseSenate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) knew when he withdrew his "poison pill" anti-abortion amendment to Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) most recent attempt to raise the minimum wage, that his parliamentary maneuvering had succeeded and that low-income workers would once again be denied their first required pay hike in ten years. For those of you keeping track for the Congressional elections in November, this makes nine times in the last decade that Republicans have blocked a minimum wage increase proposed by Democrats. Frist Slips 'Poison Pill' to Minimum Wage Bill
This year it's tougher, because Republican Senators up for reelection may have to explain screwing working Americans in a more recent vote while, at the same time, managing to give themselves nine pay raises, totaling almost $32,000, in the same ten-year span. So Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has found a new way to pull his Simon Legree act and this time it takes the form of attaching a "poison pill" amendment to Kennedy's S.AMDT.4322, which would gradually raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour over the next two years. Racism and ReligionNick Anderson. Washington Post Writers Group.
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