Maybe the Government Needs to Regulate CEO Pay
After adjusting for inflation, we pay CEOs today four times what they made in the 1970′s. Pay-for-performance is the idea behind exorbitant CEO pay, but the fact is that CEO’s make big money whether their companies perform or not. CEO pay is a problem that is affecting us all as we struggle to afford housing, [...]
iFoodstamps
Reblogged from theredpillguide: Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2012 12:12 -0500 Think Apple is the only thing allowed to hit new records every month? Think again: presenting iFoodstamps – the number of Americans living in poverty (or at least doing a damn good job of fooling the government in pretending they do). As of December, per SNAP this number [...]
Chart of the Day
Reblogged from Gerry Canavan: Reasons why it feels like we’re running harder and harder and not getting anywhere in the middle class.
"Gospel Of Inequality": Santorum Praises Income Inequality
Reblogged from mykeystrokes.com: “Santorum Praises Income Inequality.” That was Fox News’s headlineabout Rick Santorum’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday. Santorum said, “I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been and, hopefully, and I do say that, there always [...]
What No Child Left Behind Actually Leaves Behind (via COLORLINES)
Reblogged from Teacher Under Construction: source: http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/10_years_later_no_child_left_behind_ignores_plenty.html This is an interesting way to view things, for the sake of experimentation. I would like to see how corporate education reformers would respond to this.
Occupy Phase II
I stopped by Burnside Park yesterday with some coffee and took away some Occu-debris. Then I went to First UU, like Paul Revere (sort of). Get on downtown and join the cleanup! Amazing what they did, working till 1:30am. The tents are down, materials in neat stacks. The ground is raked, the fountain clean. All [...]
URGENT, URGENT, URGENT!
Today, Sunday 29 January, volunteers are needed at Burnside Park to pack up the tents and leave the space clean. If you have a truck, even better. Parking is awful. Bring your love energy. Providence has created the best Occupation nationwide– let’s show the world that we are ready for the next step– taking the [...]
Occupy Providence, Day 80–House of Compassion
General Assembly, the decision-making body of Occupy Providence, meets daily in Burnside Park. Monday I was there at the invitation of Artemis Moonhawk, who has been a member of the Occupation since its beginning. In the big tent, sitting in a circle in the light of an LED lantern, about 20 members of the General [...]
Dis-Obey
Last night I began my Christmas shopping. I survived a trip to the Providence Place Mall without getting foul-tempered. The trick was avoiding the parking garage, where cars were gridlocked coming and going, and inside shoppers were waiting in long lines to get their parking receipts. I saw a rack of Obey T-shirts at [...]
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