You've lost your job. After a couple of months of unemployment, your savings are depleted. You've lost your house, or you're about to. You're a single parent. You have $1,000 ?to your name.?
Can you make...
Conservatives love to blame our economic woes on social safety nets, specifically Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka "food stamps."
They have convinced large swaths of supporters and talking heads...
Two government agencies are warning Flint, Michigan, residents that their water still might not be safe, even though they are using the water filters handed out to make it safe. Simply put, the water filters...
President-elect Donald Trump has a new policy adviser who is lacking in one thing: compassion.
Ken Blackwell, a Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council, said that there is "nothing more Christian" than cutting...
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Monday December 26, 2016, started out as an ordinary evening...
Now that winter is swinging into full effect, one Buffalo, N.Y., church is making sure everyone in its community is staying warm by converting an old school bus into a clothing pantry, offering hats, gloves,...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year.
This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years.
Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
The world is changing. Human cashiers at grocery stores are being replaced by machines that let customers check their items out themselves. Long haul truckers and taxi cab drivers will soon be replaced by autonomous...
Nelson Mandela said:
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
If that is true, our society has a very dark soul.
Portland, Oregon, like so many American...
We've come a long way with school lunches for kids in the U.S. but I think most children tend to simply eat what's put before them, even if they complain. School lunches were so bad...
There’s been no shortage of great articles over the past year examining the many similarities between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. And a startling number of Trump’s fans have demonstrated sympathy towards neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, or...
They're at it again.
As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill includes another insult: repeal the Affordable Care Act's, aka Obamacare, individual...
Let me start off by saying I have no problem with the media.
I refer to it and quote it every day in these articles.
I respect our "fourth estate" as a formidable barrier between a free...
A new study by the University of California's Berkeley Center for Labor Research And Education confirms what many of us have long suspected--the great majority of those on welfare actually do work. Specifically, almost 75...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
In 2009 President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama painstakingly perused a plethora of choices for a play area that would be suitable, at first for their daughters Sasha and Malia, and later...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
A 52-year-old woman, Karen Lee Batts, was evicted from a senior assisted living facility for non-payment of $338.00. Batts' family says she suffers from schizophrenia.
The facility that evicted Batts was under the management of Cascade Management, Inc....
Dubbed the "Christmas Village," the Chinese town of Yiwu is home to 600 factories that make 60 percent of the world's Christmas decorations.
You won't find prancing reindeer or merry Santa's elves at this workshop, however....
Most of us know what the Ukrainian flag looks like now after a month of wall-to-wall coverage of Russia's onslaught against Ukraine.
A month ago the only ones who knew the name "Volodymyr Zelenskyy" were probably...
