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- helping the people of sri lanka help themselves
  Posted by Justonehumbletruthseeker
  "Based in Kandy, Sri lanka, Fridsro is a registered non-profit organisation with about 300 employees. Since 1972 Fridsro has been investing in restoring the lives of children and adults affected by poverty and social disparities." this is a wonderful organization -- please read about what they are doing in sri lanka!
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- Census data show one in eight Americans in poverty
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  In the world's biggest economy one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in poverty last year, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday, releasing a figure virtually unchanged from 2004. The survey also showed 15.9 percent of the population, or 46.6 million, had no health insurance, up from 15.6 percent in 2004 and the fifth increase in a row. It was the first year since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 that the poverty rate did not increase. As in past years, the figures showed poverty especially concentrated among blacks and Hispanics.
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- Skid row makeover
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  With chic lofts on the rise, Los Angeles' impoverished residents are being driven out of the last place they can call home.
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- Survival of the Richest
  Posted by Billbar from The American Prospect
  Former senator John Edwards gave a terrific speech to the National Press Club Thursday, one that felt like eloquence from another age. His theme: America should end poverty in three decades, mainly by rewarding work and promoting opportunity. "Poverty is the great moral issue of our time," Edwards declared. This speech was his de facto kickoff for a run at the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
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- Report reveals global slum crisis
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  At least a billion slum-dwellers who make up a third of the world's urban population often live no better - if not worse - than rural people, a UN report says. Worst hit is Sub-Saharan Africa where 72% of urban inhabitants live in slums rising to nearly 100% in some states.
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- The Fallout from Falling US Wages
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5
  Stagnant or falling real wages undermine workers' basic expectations of rising levels of consumption. Those expectations had become key parts of what it meant to be "an American." Rising consumption has long functioned as the evidence of success in achieving the American dream. When, after the mid-1970s, real wages no longer allowed for rising consumption, wage-earners turned, with growing urgency, toward other ways and means to maintain rising consumption . This delayed the inevitable, a falling standard of living, but at great economic and social cost.
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- Bush's Elimination of Income Survey Avoids Awareness of Poverty Levels
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Truth Out
  Once again the Neo-Facist Repiglican priority is dextrimental to that of the working people in America. $70 Billion in tax cuts for the wealthy is ok, $100’s of billions on illegal wars is fine, and Destroying the Constitution to which they swear to defend is Patriotic. An empire in delcline spending its fortunes on wars and corruption. Emperor after Emperor granted himself huge magnificent palaces luxuries no other common Roman could afford. All this concentration of wealth at a timeThe People were enduring increasingly painful circumstances and an ever more un-certain future. Sound Familiar? Will North America someday resemble Europe? 34 different countries, all relics of an ancient empire?
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okami comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

sure. . .that’s about three times what i’m paying on my house. . .which takes up half my retirement. . .
affordable? not to people worse off than me.

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1:22 am 7/02/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

Nickels may be a community leading green mayor but he’s also a developer’s mayor and paul allen’s mayor and a do-little mayor on transit.

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11:35 pm 7/01/08
lizsternberg comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I was motivated to write to May Nickels in response to this. Here’s what I wrote to him:
"I do not believe $1115 in rent a month is "Affordable housing."

The fact that there are many well to do business people in Seattle should not put a shadow over the Childcare professionals, construction workers, educators, and Administrative Assistants who make less than 40K a year. If they had to pay $1115 a month it would most certainly be well over 30% of their income.

Are you trying to turn Seattle into an elitist community, or what?"

If you feel the same way, you should email important officials too.

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11:22 pm 7/01/08
Aisleace comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I always heard that rent or housing shoud be 25% of your salary. That $1115 a month works out to a salary of $53520 a year. They must be rich in Seattle if low income singles (because it’s a studio apartment) are making over $53000 a year. Based on a 40 hour week that works out to $25.48/hour.

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9:36 pm 7/01/08
mymanjones comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I live on Social Security only. My income is less than $900 a month. HUD gives we senior citizens a place to live at 30% of income after medical expenses. Try it sometime. Going to the bathroom on a regular basis is our form of joy.

Don Jones

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8:57 pm 7/01/08
newscloud2 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I think I heard someone call the crane the official bird of Seattle.
See http://www.crosscut.com/real-estate/12205/Skyline%2C 2008/

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5:11 pm 7/01/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

endentured housitude to the fascist bankers

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5:05 pm 7/01/08