Support Our Troops
Facebook friend Vicki posted this. It reminds me of a short story by George Saunders, a writer I greatly admire–’Home’, published in the New Yorker 6/13/2011. The protagonist, a returning veteran, has arrived home just in time to see his mother evicted… Ma was on the front lawn screaming at this low-slung fat guy. Harris [...]
How Government Preys on the Poor
Barbara Ehrenreich has a new blog called Economichardship.org, which talks about how the Great Recession is impacting regular folk. This article has some information on how government and law enforcement are getting into the business of making money off the poor. At the local level though, government is increasingly opting to join in the looting. [...]
The Radical History of Mother’s Day | NationofChange
Enjoying the day here with the family, and thought this post was a good one for remembering the true intent of the holiday. Happy Mother’s Day to all! The Radical History of Mother’s Day | NationofChange.
U.S. | Rising innequalities in the United States was a root cause of the financial crisis
Reblogged from Global Job Gap, Local Skills Gap: As noted by The Economist, “[s]everal prominent economists now reckon that inequality was a root cause of the financial crisis.” Indeed, in recent years there has been a proliferation of analyses supporting this view writes Till van Treeck in Did inequality cause the U.S. financial crisis? published on boeckler.de. The [...]
Wondering Where Your Job Went? Check the Local Prison
Why hire someone for minimum wage when you can get prison labor for half the cost? While work can be an important part of rehabilitation, we have to look at how it impacts the job market when we are turning over millions of jobs to prisoners. From Salon.com: 21st century chain gangs.
BREAKING: Bush Opposes Taxing the Rich
What a surprise. George Bush wants all the tax breaks to stay in place for the 1%. ”Leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators,” he says in the article linked below. Here’s a concept: what about letting the middle class be job creators? What about helping small businesspeople feel economically strong enough to [...]
Humanities and Social Science Grad Students: Really Smart Suckers?
The case is now being made, quite strongly some might argue, that a humanities or social science Phd is not going to get you very far in life. In fact, the analysis of graduate students by the most strident critics suggests that they are “really smart suckers” for a system that is going to screw [...]
American Suburbs: Quiet, Safe, and Poor
You will notice a lot of “For Sale” signs on houses in our neighborhood and pretty much any neighborhood in Cranston. A quick look at the Zillow map for Cranston says there are 538 homes for sale or rent in the city. Let’s hope we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and become the [...]
Inequality Marches On — The Death March of American Inequality
I know some of our readers believe that no matter how unfair and extreme income inequality becomes, there is nothing the government can do — we must let the free markets set the course. But what if those free markets are setting us on a course for destruction? Do we accept our ultimate demise as [...]
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