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• How Many People Are on Foodstamps?

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 425
  A pop quiz: How many Americans are on food stamps? How many children in the United States are on food stamps? For how many people in the United States are food stamps their only means of regular financial support? An article from Saturdays New York Times gives the surprising (to me, at least) answers: One in ...
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• Gurkhas arriving in UK without jobs or money, say charities

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Jan 5 (IANS) Retired Gurkha soldiers are turning up to settle in Britain without money, jobs or accommodation, and need urgent financial help, British charities say.Military charities say they have “grave concerns” about their ability to cope with requests for help from former Nepali Gurkha soldiers who ...
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• Living On Bread Alone

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times’ Jason DeParle and Robert M. Gebeloff had a disquieting report this weekend that six million Americans — or 1 in 50 households — earn no income except for food stamps. This, in part, indicates as Understanding Government has looked at, that food stamps “work” as a federal social ...
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• More on the economy from the NY Times - food stamp article:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  “Living on Nothing but Food Stamps By JASON DEPARLE and ROBERT M. GEBELOFF Published: January 2, 2010 CAPE CORAL, Fla. — After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and the ...
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• Tragic Choices at Grady Hospital

  
  Health Care Organizational Ethics — Authority: 118
  On October 3, Grady Hospital in Atlanta closed its dialysis clinic. Grady committed itself to cover the cost of dialysis for three months for any of the 96 patients under its care who did not have an alternative source of dialysis. The three month extension is up on January 3. An undetermined number of patients - ...
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• Can’t Find A Job? No Problem – Start Your Own Company!

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 128
  You’ve got to love this story from FOXNews.com (actually, it appears that this story is from The Wall Street Journal). Whenever someone suggests that the American Dream may not be in reach for younger generations, I find that stories like the one linked above re-emphasize how some people won’t take “no” for ...
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• Is there a tradeoff between growth and security?

  
  The Curious Capitalist — Authority: 605
  Im back in the office on what is shaping up to be an extremely slow news day, which is why I find myself reading things like a little Q&A with economist Raghuram Rajan on the WSJs Real Time Economics blog. Heres one of the Qs the resulting A:How do you expect the U.S. model of [...]
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• The Two Income Trap By Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 534
  This was an absolutely fascinating read and its one of the few books that we truly recommend, especially to those with families. The main premise of the book is that our current system of having to have two incomes to make ends meet is what is driving individual family economic meltdowns. How can more money end up ...
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• The Safety Net Gets A Temporary Repair

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 792
  The concept of a safety net, there for support when youre down and out and need a little help to get back on your feet, is one we dont talk enough about. For example, in yesterdays Midday Open Thread , Laura posted about the emergency room (known in most hospitals as the Emergency Department) and what its really ...
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• Calif. Dems plan to address govs Medicaid worries

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Californias Democratic congressional leaders said Wednesday they hope to address concerns raised by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about the cost of health insurance legislation moving through Congress. Schwarzenegger wrote members of the states congressional delegation this week and asked them for more flexibility to ...
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• Christmas in the Senate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  In passing the health care legislation tomorrow, the Senate is calling for a significant redistribution of purchasing power in health care toward lower-income Americans, an economist writes.
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• Christmas in the Senate

  
  Economix — Authority: 691
  In passing the health care legislation tomorrow, the Senate is calling for a significant redistribution of purchasing power in health care toward lower-income Americans, an economist writes.
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• Maybe Jean Valjean Was Right

  
  Economix — Authority: 691
  The Associated Press reports on the moral relativism inspired by economic hardship.
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• No, they insist on statism

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 134
  http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/12/community-as-safety-net/#comments Not only are centrists, liberals and progressives determined to find a better way for government to fix our problems, they insist on statism, and they continuously find reasons why the private sector is not an alternative. If the current ...
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• What We Need

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 126
  On Wednesday, December 16, it was hard to see that there was anything else to talk about but Joe Lieberman and how he had decided the way healthcare should be reconfigured in America, as he had the one and only mother of all swing votes, and a giant chip on his shoulder and the mother of all grudges against anyone who ...
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• House Passes Jobless Benefits and COBRA Subsidy Extension

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 150
  Both of these programs are so overwhelmingly popular that even Republicans voted for them, the vote was 395-to-34 .
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• No More Safety Nets!

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The office of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has sent around a document preemptively attacking a new stimulus bill. This objection is perfectly in line with Republican thinking, but I’m still surprised to see it: The bill includes $79 Billion for safety net programs (more than is actually supposedly dedicated to job ...
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• Ellison’s Jobs Plan Typical DFL Thinking

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  After reading Keith Ellison’s latest e-letter, the first thing that popped into my head was that it was typical of DFL economics 101. Here’s part of Rep. Ellison’s e-letter update: One of the top priorities I have in the Congress is building lasting prosperity for families in the Fifth Congressional District ...
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• House to vote on jobless benefit extension

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  The House plans to vote Wednesday on measures that would extend the safety net for the unemployed and spur job creation.
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• Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net Is Failing Americans and How to Fix It

  
  United Professionals Blog — Authority: 117
  This is a brief summary of a study done by the Institute for Policy Studies. Click on the link to download the entire study.The economic crisis is still on the rise for millions of Americans, while at the same time the social safety net is failing to support many of them.The national study, Battered by [...]
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