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I was following up on a diary posted yesterday about McDonalds and fast food being poisonous to families and how this stuff should be avoided at all costs, and while this particular story was short, the comments under it hit a whole number of nerves...
by 728huey
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 06:56 AM PDT
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Lying on his side, in front of the PATH Credit Union office which hadn’t opened yet. A worn, dirty black parka and pants, boots that might’ve been worn to work some time, perhaps not very long ago. His face has bubbled over into a mass of graying...
by viragette
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on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 12:19 PM PDT
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I wrote a diary the other day about the current issues I have been having with Covid--basically, I have to be off work for three weeks because I am immunocompromised. This is hurting me financially because I only had one week of paid time off--so I am...
by tonyahky
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on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 05:40 AM PDT
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As we stand on the brink of the 57th session of the Commission on Population and Development, it’s crucial to recognize the pivotal role that addressing population growth and ensuring the full rights of women and girls play in achieving global...
by populationmediacenter
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 09:58 AM PDT
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As we delve into the findings of the UNICEF 2023 Child Marriage report, we are faced with both encouraging progress and sobering realities regarding child marriage worldwide. Today, I want to share my thoughts on the report’s insights and the urgent...
by populationmediacenter
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 06:36 AM PDT
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In the heart of Zambia, a revolution was brewing, not on the streets, but across the airwaves. From May 2021 to September 2022, two riveting radio shows – Kwishilya (“Over the Horizon”) in the Bemba language and Siñalamba (“Breaking the Barrier”) in...
by populationmediacenter
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
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The assertion that rapid rates of population growth somehow stimulate economic growth has been made by economists for a long time but achieved prominence during the Reagan Administration. As advocated by Julian Simon, Malcolm Forbes Jr. and others, the...
by populationmediacenter
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 06:49 AM PDT
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I heard you this morning on the 1A on NPR. I have some issues with what you had to say there. I know you are a pundit, and I’m not. I also know you got it wrong. We will begin with the Whisky Rebellion, which you mentioned, but, obviously don’t know...
by MeJean
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 02:10 PM PDT
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Participants who received an average of $850 per month used it for paying bills, reducing debt, and improving credit. By Timothy Pratt, for Capital & Main � In 2022, Shamarra Woods, now 31, was ...
by Capital and Main
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT
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by RubenBolling
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 04:50 AM PST
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“Period poverty is rampant in the US, with serious health and economic implications,” states a 2023 story in the Guardian. The story goes on to explain that nearly seventeen million persons living in poverty need period products each and every month....
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s a truth (or do I mean a truism?): you’re only young once. I say that, of course, as I head for my 80th year on this planet....
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 07:53 AM PST
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Today, as part of Martin Luther King Jr Day my 9-year-old asked to listen to Dr. King’s “I have a Dream Speech”. So we went to Youtube and searched for it. There were multiple options and I simply chose the video at the top, not noticing the 6 minute...
by Peter Olandt
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 09:38 PM PST
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s views on foreign policy: A perspective based on justice. A model to emulate “I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present...
by tony a
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:15 AM PST
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In low-income areas of Los Angeles without supermarkets, small stores are learning to profitably sell healthy foods their customers can afford. By� George B. Sánchez-Tello �for Capital & Main The ...
by Capital and Main
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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When you donate to charity this holiday season, remember something as you sign your check or click “send”. Poor people are hungry all year long. So are their pets. So help whenever you can, not just at Christmas. If you like my work you can support me...
by morgansmom
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 09:26 PM PST
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This piece develops from a talk I gave at a meeting discussing the economic situation in Britain and how this issue will play out locally in London. It also provides some suggestions where we can develop grassroots local campaigns in local communities...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Huffpost right now has a lead “Why the bad vibes”? They come to the unsurprising conclusion that it is because economic life for many people is worse now than during the pandemic. Surprise! There are two economies, one for the upper 40% and the other...
by dmontaine
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 05:40 PM PST
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According to last April's Forbes Magazine there are 2640 billionaires in the world. There are an additional 128,000 people who control $50Million or more. These 130,000 (.016% of population) account for more than 50% of all the wealth and income in the...
by 40ford
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 08:34 AM PST
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Poorer World War is instant poverty – What treasures and resources Lost, Like the sphinx's nose, Throughout all our history And potential ways From lust for power, fear and greed? We are a curious species And would build the passage to the stars And...
by Paul Frea
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 10:45 AM PST
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