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• Neighbors We May Rarely See

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 638
  I don’t know about you, but I rarely, if ever travel the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.  I’ve heard it’s a rough neighborhood — people get robbed, beaten and left for dead.  But yesterday — somewhat out of necessity, and…
  6 days ago

• Doing the Right Thing: 2,500 years of Moral Philosophy in one Blog Post!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I suppose (or at least hope) that we all want to do the right thing but how do we decide what the right thing really is? We likely all have at least some vague principles that we follow to guide our decision making such as being honest, kind to others (or at least polite), and not stealing. Maybe our ethical ...
  1 week ago

• Why Literacy Is An Important Financial Building Block

  
  SavingAdvice.com Blog — Authority: 492
  “More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level — far below the level needed to earn a living wage.” – National Institute for Literacy“Nearly half of America’s adults are poor readers, or ‘functionally illiterate.’ They can’t carry out simple tasks like balancing check books, ...
  1 week ago

• Why Literacy Is An Important Financial Building Block

  
  Personal Finance Advice — Authority: 124
  “More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level — far below the level needed to earn a living wage.” – National Institute for Literacy“Nearly half of America’s adults are poor readers, or ‘functionally illiterate.’ They can’t carry out simple tasks like balancing check books, ...
  1 week ago

• Blaming the Individual

  
  Pretty Lady — Authority: 106
  for institutional excess: never have so many members of the nation’s younger generations been so dependent on their parents and grandparents. Should parents set limits, or is this transfer of wealth a social and economic necessity in the long jobless recession? How has this growing dependence changed the country? ...
  1 week ago

• Colorado minimum wage reveals flaws in the Consumer Price Index

  
  Workforce Developments — Authority: 119
  Actually, flaws in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) have been apparent to a lot of people for quite a while. Some argue that the CPI overstates inflation. Others argue it understates inflation. Your perspective depends on where you sit on the political spectrum, and it has been mostly an esoteric debate among the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The best case made for a living wage I’ve ever heard..

  
  Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man -- Kill the Corporation — Authority: 136
  Someone just commented on this video I posted on Youtube back in 2006. I just watched it again and realized that besides the fun part of the Nassau County Executive singing a calypso song. There was an excellent summation made for why a living wage is needed everywhere. The County Executive also said that [...]
  4 weeks ago

• SEIU & ACORN: Guilt by Association

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 546
  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has become a favorite target of the extreme right wing. As SEIU becomes a more significant force for change in this country, we are going to continue to be hit by the same extreme right-wing attack machine that is trying to block healthcare reform and regulatory reform ...
  4 weeks ago

• The GOP was first on national healthcare

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  No, seriously, even though there’s a bit of a trick to it. The first major politician to advocate for a national healthcare system? Theodore Roosevelt. Of course, when he tried to wrestle back GOP leadership from his disappointing hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft, Taft turned to the GOP old guard ...
  8 weeks ago

• Acorn Sets Their Sights on Canada

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 129
  The first question is: How did a leader of a criminal enterprise get into Canada. Ottawa: The Public Service Association of Canada building was drenched in a downpour as we started our discussion of Citizen Wealth , but it wasn’t long before the room was warm with good conversation and insightful ...
  8 weeks ago

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