If America is to adopt socialism, why not have socialism for the poor, rather than for the rich? Why should American households that earn $50,000 a year subsidize Goldman Sachs partners who earn $5 million a year?
Lets Stop the Greatest Theft in the History of Humankind | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
On June 6th, 2008, the website of the Public Health Agency of Canada quietly added the 2008 report by Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr David Butler-Jones. Normally, as noted in this release by Liberals Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Dr. Ruby Dhalla, such a report to Canadians from a senior public official would be accompanied by news conferences [...]
A provocative new book argues you can’t do anything for yourself when you’re being swarmed by bees. It’s just an analogy, but author and philosopher Charles Karelis’s take on poverty is a stinging refutation of generations of social policy
TheStar.com | Ideas | The buzz about bee stings and the poor
Poverty is expensive. Just as it is much more costly to treat a disease than prevent one, it costs more to provide emergency hostels than affordable housing, more to take a child into the care of child welfare agencies than to make sure families have adequate incomes and more to cope with school dropouts than [...]
Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released The Great CEO Pay Race, by Hugh Mackenzie. The study finds that Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs will have pocketed the national average wage of $38,998 by 10:33 am on January 2nd. The CEO report and an online tool to find out how quickly the top 100 [...]
AlterNet: Health & Wellness: The Key To Good Health That No One Is Talking About: Money
The public generally believes that poor lifestyle choices, faulty genes and infectious agents are the major factors that give rise to illness. Here’s the rest of the story. Research now tells us that lower socio-economic status may be more [...]
susanrosenthal.com