February 2009
10 posts
WatchPBS Frontline “Inside the Meltdown” explores the beginning of the financial crisis with te eery voice of the Frontline narrator and Chris Dodd.
Watch the entire episode
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“ If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...”
– The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
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Poverty = Negligence? →
The Nadya Suleman story has pissed me off for days. A chorus of “take the kids! take this kids!” Have these people screaming this way ever known any foster kids? That usually doesn’t end well.
Low-income parents are much more likely to have their children removed from their care. Take this story from a story from Ms. Magazine.
When a recurrent plumbing problem in an upstairs...
ARRA & Poverty
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus package) has been criticzed by a bunch of anti-welfare knuckleheads because it includes some increases in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and food stamp increases.Here are the facts:
The ARRA does include a 13% increase in food stamp benefits over the next year. It also waives the limit on benefits for adults without...
Thoughts on Octo-Mom
I’m sticking up for Nadya Suleman. Who’s with me? Okay, I guess I’m on my own. Ms. Suleman’s action were not responsible but she’s not alone. I’ve seen many people with 14 kids and no resources to care for them. Some of my clients lack the intellectual capacity to write their own names yet they conceive and raise (or something) seven, eight & ten kids.
How are...
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A Man-Made Disaster →
The whole economic crisis could be called a man-made disaster. This takes that a step further. County Comissioners in Port St. Lucie, Florida are contemplating an unprecedented move. They are considering declaring the county a man-made disaster. The city is 8th worst in the nation for foreclosures. The comissioner even said the economy has suffered more from high unemployment and high foreclosure...
