Sayis Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old homeless advocate: “One of police officers came over and said ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I was carrying a weapon”. Why? The city of Fort Lauderdale has made it a criminal offence for groups to feed the homeless in public. Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: It’s Easy To Malign The Poor
There are just so many of them, the reasons for which Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera turn their mighty intellects to articulate: Please note that while the video plays in Explorer, it does not seem to work with Chrome. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Misplaced Right-Wing Anger
The ‘lady’ in this video, so agitated by the number of Americans on food stamps, is right to be angry, but for the wrong reasons: H/t Eric Dolan Recommend this Post
Continue readingLeDaro: Melissa Harris-Perry on Poverty in America
Very interesting and heated discussion on poverty in America by Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Attitudes Toward The Poor
“The more wealth you have, the more focused on your own self and your own needs you become, and the less attuned to the needs of other people you also become.” So says social psychologist Paul Piff in response to a study Chronicle of Philanthropy report on charitable giving, discussed
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