Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During Economic Downturn
Suburban Slums – GETTY image Hope Yen Associated Press WASHINGTON — The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities. A pair…
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Mortgage Damage Spreads
Big Bank Stocks Hit Again as Modern Finance Collides With the Legal System Nick Timiraos, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Dan Fitzpatrick Wall Street Journal The unfolding foreclosure-processing…
Nearly Half of Small-Business Owners May Never Retire
Dennis Jacobe Gallup PRINCETON, NJ — Nearly half, 47%, of small-business owners now plan to never retire until forced to do so for health reasons…
Phoenix Cop Murders Unarmed Man and His Dog
Phoenix Police Richard Chrisman The Intel Hub What do police departments expect when they openly hire idiots? This man should be charged with two counts…
Behind federal government’s lies: real economic numbers prove US in Great Depression
Terrence Aym Helium The US government has been playing with the economic numbers for years and now the statistics have become nothing more than a…
Gerald Celente: ‘The sell-off of America’
YouTube – RT America Financial institutions on Wall Street are preparing to pay a shocking record $144 billion dollars in compensation & benefits. This amid…
A Liberal’s Perspective of the Tea Party
Boston Tea Party S. Paul Forrest Activist Post In reaction to the modern age of cynicism, media slander, and growing distrust in our government; new…
Americans See Children’s Future Dim in Poll as 50% Pessimistic
Rich Miller Bloomberg Americans say they have weathered the worst of the longest recession in seven decades, even as they are pessimistic about prospects for…
Are We Giving Our Soldiers Drugs That Make Them Kill Themselves?
More soldiers than ever are on drugs that have been linked to suicide and violent behavior. Martha Rosenberg Alternet In 2009 there were 160 active…
The Killing and Reviving the American Dream
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Lew Rockwell USA Today loves to run lifestyle features that purport to show how we are living, what we are doing, what…
Gov’t: No call for Social Security increase in 2011
Stephen Chlemacher Associated Press WASHINGTON – As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce…
World job crisis is a threat to democracy, says IMF head
International Monetary Fund meeting dominated by fears that US job crisis will add to currency tensions with China Larry Elliot Guardian The International Monetary Fund…
U.S. Won’t Recover Lost Jobs Until March 2020 At Current Pace
Ed Carson Investors.com The U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, far worse than expectations for no change in employment. More Census-related temp jobs ended,…
Economic Bright Spot: Dying communities see salvation in new prisons
Kathy Mccormack Associated Press BERLIN, N.H. — Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community…