US mayors decry rise in poverty, homelessness
A homeless woman sits with her belongings on a sidewalk in Los Angeles © AFP/File Frederic J. Brown AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US mayors sounded…
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Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID
US Soldier Scans the Iris of an Iraqi – Wiki Image Vince Beiser Wired In India, hundreds of millions of impoverished people have no ID—which…
Katrina Victims Still Seek Justice
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The Matternet: A Flying Autonomous Delivery System For The Developing World
Photo Credit – Fast Company Ariel Schwartz Fast Company Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine….
Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world’s finances
Bob Yirka PhysOrg For many years conventional wisdom has said that the whole world is controlled by the monied elite, or more recently by the…
Fault Lines: The Top 1% (Video)
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Missouri to Begin Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
Drug Test – Wiki Image Joe Harris Courthouse News Service JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Some federal welfare recipients will be subjected to drug testing or…
Southern Poverty Law Center labels Senator Rand Paul an ‘extremist’
Editor’s Note: A terrific counterweight to this latest nonsense coming from the “hate group hedge fund” SPLC that just put Rand Paul and a few…
Police arrest 5 more activists for feeding homeless
Mark Schlueb Orlando Sentinel Orlando police arrested five more activists from behind a makeshift buffet table at Lake Eola Park on Wednesday evening, bringing to…
Kucinich: We must reclaim our monetary system for the people (Video)
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Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless
Orlando police say they violated a city ordinance restricting the feedings. Susan Jacobson Orlando Sentinel Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when…
Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure
CNN Saying it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance…
Homeless Mom Charged With Stealing $16,000 in Education By Lying About Son’s Address for School
Robin Marty Care2 A homeless mother in Connecticut has been charged with theft of “education expenses” totaling nearly $16,000 after it was discovered that she…
Minnesota Republicans want to outlaw cash-carrying poor people
Fight Back News St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have…