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The Battle Against Letting Wall Street Continue to Make a Killing on Derivatives | | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:16 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Yet the administration's purportedly high-priority agency legislation is already much weaker on protecting consumers from fraudulent or confusing loans than originally proposed.
Camp Lejeune water contamination history detailed in documents - St. Petersburg Times
Seeded on Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:08 AM EDT (St. Petersburg Times > Local News)
The U.S. Marine Corps has long assured the public that it closed drinking water wells at Camp Lejeune as soon as it found they were tainted with toxic chemicals.
Georgia Rep Wants to Gut the 14th Amendment | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 10:13 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
In a cynical move to build support for his campaign for the governorship of Georgia, U.S. Representative Nathan Deal has rekindled racist fervor to gut birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Flood rescuer repeats father's heroic actions - CNN.com
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (CNN)
Dying in the massive floodwaters couldn't be Zack's fate. Certainly not this day. It was his mother Eva's 72nd birthday. Lord knows she didn't deserve news like that.
Army reservist beaten in front of child | ajc.com
Seeded on Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:38 PM EDT (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A man beat an Army reservist in front of a Morrow Cracker Barrel, yelling racial slurs at her as he kicked her in the head, Morrow police said. The assault happened in front of the woman's 7-year old daughter, who stood there, crying, witnesses told police.
Why I love Britain's socialized healthcare system | Salon
Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:26 AM EDT (Salon.com)
This, I learned, is what the NHS is about -- common decency. It is about the shared belief that all the people who live in the United Kingdom constitute a society, and a decent society provides certain necessities for its members. Freedom from hunger is one.
The Economic Fallout Has Decimated the Black Middle Class | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:00 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
For African Americans -- and to a large extent, Latinos -- the recession is over. It occurred between 2000 and 2007, as black employment decreased by 2.4 percent and incomes declined by 2.9 percent.
7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat | Politics | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:20 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Third: Brush up on our nonviolent resistance -- but leave the heavy lifting and rough enforcement to the cops. It's true that the only way to stop a bully is to stand up to them. But there are ways to stand up to them that don't involve getting down to the eye-for-an-eye level.
Lou Dobbs Tours Single-Payer Systems Abroad and Realizes, Holy Crap They're Good | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:03 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Take Lou's famous Imaginary Alien Leprosy Epidemic from 2005: He insisted that 7,000 cases of leprosy had suddenly appeared in the U.S.
Recognizing the 21 Signs of a Health Care Extremist
Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:40 PM EDT
In any conversation regarding Extremist it's important to define exactly what Extremism is.
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DUI: The $10,000 ride home - MSN Money
Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:58 AM EDT (MSN)
If you need any more reasons not to drink and drive, consider this: A driving-under-the-influence conviction is a financial wrecking ball. A typical DUI costs about $10,000 by the time you pay bail, fines, fees and insurance, even if you didn't hit anything or hurt anybody.
End Homelessness - Change.org: Recession Babies
Seeded on Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:37 PM EDT ()
So if there's anything to be irked about after reading this story, it is that children - "recession babies", if you will - bear the brunt of the punishment for the lack of family-friendly policies and housing.
Shop Locally - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:57 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
According to the 3/50 Project, for every $100 spent in locally owned independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spend that with a national chain, only $43 stays at home.
Turn economic setback into opportunity - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:50 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
For the millions of Americans sending out résumés and waiting anxiously for replies, talk of a silver lining may seem absurd. But America has a long history of resilience in the face of hardship, and of bouncing back from even worse situations than the one we face today.
Look Out, Are You About to Join the White Underclass? | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:01 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Armchair sociologist that I am, I have a theory about this: Millions of American women are in poverty because they are paid poverty wages. I could be wrong, I often am, but there seems to be a connection between poverty and money.
Americans swap homes for hotels as recession bites | Reuters
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:34 AM EDT (Reuters)
In Massachusetts, homeless shelters are at capacity. State law requires temporary accommodation for those without shelter, leading authorities to place 830 families, including 1,125 children, in 39 motels -- an unprecedented number.
Homeless services database project - proposal
Tue Jul 7, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
In a couple of other articles some people, myself included were discussing a database project of services available to homeless (or otherwise "economically challenged") people using the talents here on newsvine.
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Welfare Aid Isn't Growing as Economy Drops Off - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 7:33 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Despite soaring unemployment and the worst economic crisis in decades, 18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years.
Unemployed and on the Verge of Losing Everything: "I Don't Know How I'll Make It" | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:21 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
AlterNet is profiling unemployed Americans from across the country, all who have been out of work for over six months.
Hundreds turn out to SRS job fair in Allendale | Augusta News, Augusta Weather, Augusta Sports, Augusta Community, for Evans, Aiken & North Augusta | Local News
Seeded on Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:52 AM EDT (nbcaugusta.com)
More than eight-thousand people have already applied for jobs with Savannah River Nuclear Solutions and almost 600 have been hired so far. SRS plans to have several more job fairs, but details have not been released yet.
Dangling shoes on fence tell story of economic woes - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:04 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Mutual Ground, which counts on Illinois for 34 percent of its $1.8 million annual budget, was told last week that its funding would be cut 75 percent in the fiscal year beginning on July 1.
We're Living in a Pandemic: Now What Do We Do? - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:19 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
As a quick reminder this season "what to do" if the current flu bug gets bigger and really starts to affect us in society.
What is The Most Powerful Influence in Our Lives?
Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 AM EDT
Each of us can name key issues in a relationship that are likely to damage it, but all those issues do not suddenly appear from nowhere. They actually dictated by one subtle personal element, in particular. One we are often unaware of: perception.
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The Krugman/Limbaugh Nightmare: President Obama Might Succeed
Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:12 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
The Krugman/Limbaugh legacy now depends on Obama (and America) failing in order to vindicate these (and many other) naysayers.
Irish Soda Bread
Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:21 PM EDT
Ingredients 4-cups whole wheat flour (can also use all-purpose flour) 1 tsp. Salt 3 tsp. Baking powder 1 tsp. Baking soda 1/3-cup sugar 1/4-cup butter 1 egg 1 3/4-buttermilk Directions Preheat oven to 375. Bake bread 35-40 minutes.
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Proposal to allow breakup of huge banks gains momentum -- latimes.comReporting from Washington - Momentum is growing in the U.S. and abroad to deal with the problem of gigantic financial institutions deemed too big to fail by breaking them up before they can threaten the economy.
- Wall Street wrings money from strapped cities
Local governments and public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to Wall Street firms on investment deals gone bad.
- The Pit Bull in the China Shop
AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don't actually have to read Sarah Palin's book to have an opinion about it.
- Health Insurance Reform: The Enslavement of American Citizens to Corporate Rule
The promoters of this legislation claim that this bill will provide health insurance to 96% of the population. But, they fail to note that doesn't mean it provides health care to 96% of the American people.
- In Trying to Prevent Gay Marriage, Texas May Have Accidently Abolished it for Everyone
A Texas lawyer and candidate for attorney general, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, has found a little screw-up in the legal wording of some 2005 anti-equality legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the state.
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