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    You May Never Be Able to Retire

    APRIL 17, 2013 10:31AM

    By Donegal Descendant


    Topics: social security, retirement, pensions, savings, politics, poverty

    • 0 Ratings
    • 114 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A BED AT THE END O F THE ROAD/The REST one year on

    APRIL 15, 2013 7:21PM

    By david edwards


    Topics: poverty, journalism, activism, homeless, vets

    • 0 Ratings
    • 55 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A BED AT THE END O F THE ROAD/The REST one year on

    APRIL 15, 2013 6:58PM

    By david edwards


    Topics: vets, homeless, activism, journalism, poverty

    • 9 Ratings
    • 425 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Jill Stein vs. 'Too Lateness of America's Fate-ness'

    APRIL 10, 2013 8:36PM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: unemployment, poverty, social security, obama, green campaign school, green party, jill stein

    • 4 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    What Bliss Costs

    APRIL 7, 2013 9:20PM

    By Julie White


    Topics: poverty, social security, insurance, cancer, sara teasdale

    • 1 Ratings
    • 82 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    These Chains Are Holding Me!

    APRIL 5, 2013 1:37PM

    By Dicky Neely


    Topics: balance budget on the backs of the poor, politics, poverty, social security, chained cpi

    • 23 Ratings
    • 585 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    AUSTERITY Most Savage! (some statistics)

    APRIL 4, 2013 3:00AM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: buchhiet, homelessness, shank, randall, spencer, statistics, capitalism, corporatism, sequester, poverty

    • 3 Ratings
    • 178 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Time to Go

    MARCH 22, 2013 4:01PM

    By Bruce Lesnick


    Topics: politics, socialism, economy, capitalism, global warming, climat change, environment, poverty, racism, war, equality, justice, workers' rights

    • 16 Ratings
    • 529 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    OPEN CALL -- The Face of Poverty in America

    MARCH 10, 2013 4:33PM

    By Bernadine Spitzsnogel


    Topics: poverty

    • 8 Ratings
    • 319 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Chicago’s deadly border crossings: Lives in the balance

    MARCH 3, 2013 12:20AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: poverty, chicago, crime, racism, politics, economy

    • 14 Ratings
    • 465 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    I'd Support Drug-Testing the Poor

    FEBRUARY 28, 2013 7:33AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: economy, family, politics, welfare, poverty, drug-testing

    • 11 Ratings
    • 528 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Jill Stein's SOTU Message to Reclaim Our Future

    FEBRUARY 19, 2013 1:48AM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: jill stein, green party, green new deal, obama, sotu, poverty, climate change, medicare, medicaid, social security

    • 4 Ratings
    • 263 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    The West Side of Chicago says NO! to school closings

    FEBRUARY 15, 2013 3:06AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: poverty, racism, education, charter schools, schools closings

    • 9 Ratings
    • 528 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Taking Away the Carrot (Literally) and Leaving the Stick

    FEBRUARY 7, 2013 1:03PM

    By Jeanette DeMain


    Topics: poverty, welfare, education, tennessee

    • 0 Ratings
    • 497 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    JANUARY 24, 2013 12:12PM

    By Migs Bassig


    Topics: philippines, manila, poverty, society, crime

    • 1 Ratings
    • 162 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Pause to Recognize Global Progress

    JANUARY 20, 2013 11:08AM

    By Howard Steven Friedman


    Topics: world bank, steven pinker, poverty, millennium development goals, media criticism, media, homicide, health, gun control, fear, education, democracy, climate change

    • 0 Ratings
    • 169 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    TEA PARTY DUMBOS, PLEASE DON’T COME BACK TO D.C.

    DECEMBER 26, 2012 10:13AM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: the daily complaint., gordon hilgers, passing the buck, medicare, social security, finance, poverty, economics, freedomworks, tea party express, tea party patriots, tea party nation, tea party, barack obama, timothy geithner, paul krugman, keynesianism, government intervention, double-dip recession, 2008 downturn, wall street, occupy wall street, one percent, ron paul, rand paul, libertarianism, murray rothbard, frederick hayek, the chicago school of economics, argentina, russia, chile, disaster capitailism, milton friedman, the shock doctrine, economic shock therapy, free market economics, laissez faire economics, ludwig von mises, charles and david koch, koch industries, americans for tax reform, grover norquist, americans for prosperity, club for growth, cato institute, heritage foundation, washington concensus, dysfunctional politics, congressional deadlock, fiscal cliff, approval ratings, tea party congress, paul ryan, allen west, michele bachmann, louie gohmert, eric cantor, john boehner, u. s. house of representatives, congress, u. s. congress

    • 2 Ratings
    • 346 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Libby's Pol Stew: FastFood, Hunger, Fed, Hostess, Bangladesh

    DECEMBER 3, 2012 6:55PM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: sandy english, snyder, peter symonds, paul craig roberts, banks, fed, executive bonuses, hostess, poverty, wasantha rupasinghe, david walsh, hunger, garment fires, bangladesh, fast food pay

    • 0 Ratings
    • 131 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    JOHN BOEHNER AND HIS INSANE CLOWN POSSE VERSUS SANITY

    NOVEMBER 29, 2012 10:42AM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: john boehner, republican party, fiscal cliff, conservatism, small government, free market, no regulations, political idiots, grover norquist, the anti tax pledge, americans for tax reform, feifs, feudalism, american fascism, oligarchy, ssdi, medicare, poor people, poverty, military/industrial complex, lobbyists, wall street, goldman sachs, lloyd blankfein, gordon hilgers, the daily complaint

    • 0 Ratings
    • 57 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    If A Tree Falls...

    NOVEMBER 25, 2012 9:40PM

    By Bichn


    Topics: if a tree falls, transformation, new beginnings, poverty, homelessness

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