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Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Cornel West vs. Barack Obama vs. Melissa Harris-Perry: Not This Foolishness Again?!!

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Well, the minute I read Chris Hedges' piece on Truthdig titled The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic , that there was gon...

Another Great Republican Idea: Let's Pay Women On Welfare To Get Their Tubes Tied

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Rep. John LaBruzzo (R-LA) So let's see, Louisiana, like many states with a republican controlled state government is crying broke. Oh...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Homeless Mother Arrested for Knowingly Sending Child to School District Outside of Where She Lives (Um, She's Homeless?)

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Damn, can a sista catch a break in America anymore? I don't know what's going on, but I have a hard time believing that municipaliti...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Poverty in America: Why Don't We Take Care of the Poor in Our Own Country?

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by JuJuBe (Joanna) October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty . Some statistics about poverty in America 1 in 7...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Should the Government Tell Me How to Spend my Food Stamps?

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by JuJuBe (Joanna) After reading several articles about food stamps in the past few days, I noticed a pattern in the comment sections fo...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Orayne Williams: From Kingston, Jamaica; to a Homeless Shelter; Now to College

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Anyone one who knows me will tell you that I have a soft spot for the homeless, and downtrodden. Often, I bring to light the everyday madnes...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Candidate Carl Paladino (R-NY): Let's Put Welfare Recipients in Prison; Teach Them Responsibility & "Personal Hygiene"

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Yes, because we all know just how funky those "welfare queens" are as they drive their Cadillacs to the check cashing and/or local...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Maternal Mortality: The Story of Mamma

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She had a name.  She was a wife.  She was a mother.  She was a daughter.  She was still a child herself at 18 years old.  Now she becomes a...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Montel Williams Endorses Money Mutual Payday Loans

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First we had Russell Simons endorsing the Rush Card and now we have Montel Williams endorsing payday loans.  Are we ever going to arrive ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Bristol Is Taking Levi To Court For Child Support, Of Course This Makes Her A Gold Digger

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According to TMZ, Bristol’s lawyers filed paperwork last Thursday in an attempt to secure child support for her son, Tr ipp . According to ...

South Carolina Lt. Governor says helping the poor is like "feeding stray animals."

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Don't look now, but if a certain Lt. Governor in South Carolina has his way and should succeed Governor Mark Sandford. Government assis...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Church ordered by Phoenix Arizona judge to stop feeding the homeless

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With Thanksgiving right around the corner this is a pretty messed up story. It's bad enough that there's a "problem" with...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Men lie, women lie, but numbers don't - let's talk about women and poverty shall we?

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If you're like me, after watching the above video of a 19yr old single mother talk about her struggle, you feel bad for her. Her story i...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Hurricane Katrina: 4yrs later, and....

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Isn't it quite telling how we're always reminded every year about the events of 9/11, but not the catastrophic event that was Hurric...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Are you broke? Unemployed? Got warrants? Pay child support maybe?

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I just read over at Electronic Village that the mother of Mychal Bell of Jena 6 fame was recently arrested for non-payment of child support...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

BLOG ACTION DAY: GOD GREW TIRED OF US

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I consider myself to be passionate about Black people and the Black experience. That being said, I think its understandable that I will alw...
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