Ben Carson's "Making Affordable Housing Work Act of 2018." targets America's poor — mainly the same single-mother demographics as the 1976 speeches did — in an area they cannot afford to lose: housing.
Ben Carson's recently announcemed that the Housing and Urban Development department would be tripling the rent for Americans on housing assistance.
After the passing of the GOP tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the super rich, one must now accept the reality of the Trump administration and its purpose. It exists solely to enrich the wealth and punish the poor. Nothing more.
The tone deafness of the Republican elite is unbearable.
Barring a miracle, Bernie Sanders is not going to win the Democratic nomination. While this may seem like the end of the world for the legions of his supporters, to the contrary, it is actually the beginning of something much bigger.
This is not an endorsement, but a proclamation: Bernie Sanders is laying the foundation for a new Democrat that will change the party for the better.
Really, David Brooks is only interested in policies that sound like they'd help the poor -- otherwise he wouldn't identify as a conservative in the first place.
The emergence of new, non-profit grocery store "Daily Table" can help redress the major inefficiencies in the US food system in an extremely innovative way.
Yes, cutting down your living costs is now a form of "cultural appropriation" that is apparently deeply offensive to the poor.
While prime minister David Cameron appears to be an emotionally attuned, relatively human politician, he is in fact embarking on one of the most vicious programs of social cleansing in modern British history. Not only this, but the conservative government's radical welfare reform program appears to be literally killing people.
In 2006 O'Reilly was so virulently anti homeless that he asserted they were merely people who "want to get drunk, or they want to get high, or they don't want to work because they're too lazy."
You might not see them listed anytime soon in Inc or Forbes, but these businesses are together helping lift millions from the developing world out of poverty, doing so in such a way that’s environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Just as we created the robber barons on Wall St, we created the looters in Baltimore. Until we understand that 'they' are 'us' we can never hope to stop it.
When the rich begin to worry that poor people are too poor and that they might be too rich, it is probably a fairly good indicator that society is on the brink of big change.
Of all the bullshitters in the industry, the most dangerous are the most seemingly genuine, and Tony Robbins is probably the best in the business. Much of what Robbins says is probably quite helpful, and it would be dishonest to dismiss him as a complete fraud. Many people swear by his methods and based on testimonials, it appears he has helped a lot of people. Robbins is engaged in a lot of charity and does (sometimes) come across as a genuinely compassionate person. But there is a sinister side to his personal empowerment empire, and it is built upon the same fraudulent premise as the US economy itself.
For Mitt Romney, wealth inequality is about as important to him as Latino voting rights in SanFrancisco. But given it is election season, Romney apparently now cares about the poor he wrote off in 2012, and wants to stop wealth inequality. Of course!
If Republicans want to channel the spirit of Martin Luther King, they should start by reading him.
These maps basically prove that much of the South has become a vast economic wasteland.
Yesterday, The Denver Post decided to continue along with the trend of journalistic half-assery that surrounds the Super Bowl and published an article about how Denver Broncos safety Mike Allen said that if the Broncos won the Super Bowl this weekend, he would celebrate in an interesting way...
I’m one of the poor, lazy people New York Times columnist, and overly-privileged/perennially out of touch, champion for the oppressed moneyed interests, David Brooks, talked about in his recent column.
In a neat, 800-word column, Brooks divides the world into responsible rich people and irresponsible poor people, and postulates that inequality has nothing to do with the wealthy rigging the economy to maintain their wealth, but more to do with failed policies towards poor people, who just breed and won't work.
Our very own Ben Cohen takes on Matt Purple of The American Spectator and conservative commentator Kris Ullman on Medicaid expansion, the minimum wage, America's threat to the world, and the Duck Dynasty.
According to wealth guru Tom Corley, poor people need to stop going to McDonalds, get their asses to the gym, and listen to self help audio books on the way to their shitty jobs. That way they will become rich.
Shauniqua Epps was the sort of student that so many colleges say they want. She was a high achiever, graduating from high school with a 3.8 GPA and ranking among the top students in her class. She served as secretary, then president, of the student government. She played varsity basketball and softball. Her high-school guidance counselor, in a letter of recommendation, wrote that Epps was "an unusual young lady" with "both drive and determination."
Having spent the past 30 years watching the rich accumulate astonishing levels of wealth and their wages stagnate to the point where they cannot feed and house themselves, low skilled workers in America are finally saying enough is enough and are engaging in protest all around the country. And it's about time too.
Margaret Thatcher not only took school children's milk away, she ripped up the welfare state and radically changed the face of British society.
