- Two Americas
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John Edwards has aptly named the growing class divide "the Two Americas." Poverty? Homelessness? Unemployment? Overpaid CEOs? Billionaire hedge fund managers? It's all part of the Two Americas.
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century By Paul Krugman
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Racism Without Racists
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. On the contrary, the evidence is that Senator Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed "racism without racists." The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated Press and Yahoo, suggested that Mr. Obama's support would be about six percentage points higher if he were white. That's significant but surmountable.
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Local UW students come clean with traveling shower for homeless
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Efforts like the "traveling shower" designed and built by University of Washington architecture graduate students, on display at the Sustainable Ballard Festival Saturday, are a step in the right direction, he said. "I don't consider anything a drop in the bucket," he said. "I actually find it refreshing and creative that groups are trying to find solutions like that."
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Police sweep through Nickelsville, make arrests
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Seattle police today arrested 22 people for trespassing during an hourlong, peaceful sweep of Nickelsville, the illegal homeless camp that was set up on city property in the predawn hours of Monday.
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150 tents for homeless spring up on industrial land owned by Seattle
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
At the entrance of the makeshift grassy camp near West Marginal Way Southwest and Highland Park Way Southwest, an industrial area with the continual sound of heavy rigs, somebody had planted a wooden sign with burned-on letters: "NICKELSVILLE." This was a reference to the belief by advocates for the homeless that Mayor Greg Nickels is not exactly their friend.
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Higher prices are making it harder for elderly to buy food they need
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
While the shaky economy has made it more difficult for low-income people to meet their basic needs, the problem is deeper for the elderly and those with disabilities. Many are unable to shop for groceries, get to food banks or prepare their meals. They spoke of the choices they had to make between buying food or medicine, or paying their utility bills. "There's quite a bit of people here who live on peanut butter sandwiches -- that's it," one resident said.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required
Posted by Jeff from New York Times
"Compare the massive destruction of wealth for shareholders to what he gets at the end of the day," said Lucian Bebchuk, the director of the corporate governance program at Harvard Law School. A central flaw of governance is that boards of directors frequently are ornamental and provide negligible oversight. As Warren Buffett has said, "in judging whether corporate America is serious about reforming itself, C.E.O. pay remains the acid test." It's a test that corporate America is failing.
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Mexican farmworkers sent home from B.C. after organizing union vote
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Union officials are outraged after a group of migrant farmworkers who were harvesting vegetables in Abbotsford were sent back to Mexico after filing papers to unionize. United Food and Commercial Workers Canada alleges Floralia Plant Growers in Abbotsford put 14 migrant workers on a plane back home the day after the owners found out about their plans to join the union. Problems started when 29 workers at Floralia Plant Growers filed an application to unionize, according to UFCWC organizer Lucy Luna. The men were scheduled to vote to certify the union on Monday, and their contract with the farm was supposed to run until October, but Luna was shocked when the men called her from Mexico instead, she told CBC News.
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Neo-Nazi Magazine to Feature Obama Assassination Cover
Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
Neo-Nazi boss Bill White, long given to swaggering threats and proposals for violence, this week went even further than normal - announcing plans for a magazine cover headlined "Kill This ******?" with a photo of Barack Obama and, two days later, publishing the home address of a juror who helped convict another neo-Nazi leader in a federal conspiracy case.
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Liberals promise fairer, faster immigration system
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Canada's immigration system would get a massive overhaul worth $800 million if a Liberal government is elected on Oct. 14, Stéphane Dion said Saturday. The Liberal leader promised to clear the current backlog of 900,000 immigrants waiting to come to this country, bring in a new business and visitors' visa system and introduce a series of programs to help new Canadians learn one of the country's official languages and have their professional credentials recognized here.
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Marijuana ingredient fight bacteria
Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from International Herald Tribune
Researchers have discovered that the main active ingredient in marijuana shows promise as an antibacterial agent. This After Candian scientists found it is the only Drug able to grow new brain cells in mice.
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Labor Day: Little to Celebrate for U.S. Latinos
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A vast majority of Latino workers in the United States are forced to work for long hours and low wages with no health care or any other benefits, says a new study published this week.
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Just the Facts: How the Middle Class Got Stuck
Posted by Jeff from Yes! Magazine
Interesting chart showing how the middle class is getting squeezed by rising prices.
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