Posts tagged children
Joanne Carter: Congress leads on global education; will Obama follow?
Jul 2nd
Recent developments in the global movement to provide a quality education to the 72 million kids currently out of school present a study in contrast. While the administration has failed to deliver on President Barack Obama’s pledge to create a new Global Fund for Education, Congress is increasingly showing support for the idea. The recently concluded G8 summit, which has historically been an important platform for mobilizing global commitments to fighting poverty, was stunningly silent on expanding access to education.
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Loading ...Jonathan Weiler: Days of Rage, Years of Depravity
Jul 2nd
With the help of Ben Nelson, the ruling Senate minority has killed, yet again, unemployment insurance extensions . (As an aside: can we please stop calling people like Nelson “moderates?” Isn’t it at least as appropriate to call someone “depraved” when that individual happily supports massive tax cuts for the wealthy (and endless wars, financing of which Nelson has utterly non-sensical ideas about ), while claiming that his fealty to fiscal prudence means he cannot tolerate spending $33 billion dollars to prevent two million Americans and their families from personal catastrophe?) Click here for details of Nelson’s repeated votes to shield the wealthiest Americans from more taxes (votes which will cost the US treasury orders of magnitude more money than the unemployment extensions against which he’s voting because he says we need to make “hard choices.” A few weeks ago, Brad Delong observed that : The most astonishing and surprising thing I find about Washington DC today is the contrast in mood between DC today and what DC was thinking a generation ago, in 1983, the last time the unemployment rate was kissing 10%. Back then it was a genuine national emergency that unemployment was so high–real policies like massive monetary ease and the eruption of the Reagan deficits were put in place to reduce unemployment quickly, and everybody whose policies wouldn’t have much of an effect on jobs was nevertheless claiming that their projects were the magic unemployment-reducing bullet
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Louis Farrakhan: Jews Have ‘Undeniable Record’ Of Black Oppression
Jun 30th
CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Scher: Did I Mention That Conservatives Hate Teachers?
Jun 30th
Yesterday House leaders formally proposed spending $10 billion to help recession-bruised, fiscally distressed states prevent layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers The proposal saves teaching jobs without increasing the budget deficit by cutting other stimulus spending. This is not good enough for conservative deficit hysterics. The conservative Republican response appears to be: just lie and say helping teachers will increase the deficit anyway.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Rogers: [VIDEO] The Boys in Obama’s Pocket
Jun 29th
For a few moments last week, the President carried in his pocket a picture of two boys standing in front of the White House, the younger one with his arm thrown across his older brother’s shoulder. The boys are at the heart of a lawsuit that could — and should — end the ugliest anti-gay state law in the country: Florida law bans gay people from providing loving homes to children who would otherwise be without a family of their own. In a world where conservatives believe an underfunded orphanage bests a loving family with a same-sex relationship, it’s scary that they turned their archaic beliefs into law
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: Message to Maggie Gallagher: Associating With Bigots Does Make You a Bigot
Jun 29th
Gay marriage advocates believe there isn’t any difference between two men in a sexual union and a husband and wife, and those of us who see this difference are blinded by hatred and prejudice. They delegitimize opponents, brand us as haters, and then try to strip us of our rights
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...New Palin Legal Defense Fund: Ethics Complaints Against Illegal Fund Just Part Of A ‘Massive Witch Hunt’
Jun 29th
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The administrators of a new legal defense fund set up for Sarah Palin have sent out an e-mail that downplays the outcome of ethics complaints against the former Alaska governor and accuses her political enemies of waging a “vicious campaign” to ruin her.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ellen Brown: Who Will Pay: Wall Street or Main Street , The Tobin Tax or the VAT?
Jun 29th
Wall Street banks have been saved from bankruptcy by governments that are now going bankrupt themselves; but the banks are not returning the favor. Instead, they are engaged in a class war, insisting that the squeezed middle class be even further squeezed to balance over-stressed government budgets.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Eric Kingson: Alan Simpson’s Ignorance — D’OH
Jun 26th
Co-authored by Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson In 1982, at the first meeting of the so-called Greenspan Commission, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “We are all entitled to our own opinion, but not to our own set of facts.” Alan Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Wyoming and current co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, certainly took the first part of Moynihan’s adage to heart. No doubt about it, Simpson has a strong opinion – he wants to cut Social Security.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dr. Steve Allen: A Momentus Day for Columbus; a Quiet Revolution for Health Care
Jun 25th
It’s not every day that a children’s hospital has the President of the United States visit on the same afternoon as the Governor.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Penny Lee: Obesity Tied to America’s Physical and Financial Health
Jun 25th
For many, if not most Americans, the economy is consistently rated as issue number one come election time. So it’s hard to imagine that obesity –a crisis so intimately tied to our financial well being that it threatens to account for $344 billion in medical-related expenses and 21% of health-care spending by 2018– could ever be dismissed as being beyond the bounds of social or government involvement. This week I joined “Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman,” and I had the opportunity to debate Justin Wilson with the Center for Consumer Freedom
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rand Paul: ‘I Don’t Think The 14th Amendment Was Meant To Apply To Illegal Aliens’
Jun 24th
Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul says he would support amending the United States Constitution to end the country’s policy of guaranteeing citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. “Many argue that these children that are born to illegal aliens are really still under the jurisdiction of the Mexican government,” Paul said in an interview earlier this week with Right Wing News. “I think we need to fight that out in the courts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Scher: It’s Not About The Deficit. Conservatives Just Hate Teachers.
Jun 24th
Congressional conservatives have mainly blocked additional stimulus spending on the (economically illiterate) grounds that it would add the deficit. But apparently when it comes to preventing teacher layoffs, conservative opposition is not about the deficit at all. It’s just that conservatives want teachers to get fired
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gerald McEntee: More Jobs = Less Debt
Jun 23rd
In the worst economy since the Great Depression, far too many Americans are out of work. Despite the rising fears of more job losses, the Senate is refusing to do what is necessary to protect and create jobs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Wallace Turbeville: The Second Energy Revolution
Jun 22nd
In the 1930s, a great many Southerners had no access to electricity. The Roosevelt administration perceived an enormous opportunity to restructure the region’s economy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: A Father’s Day lesson in bigotry
Jun 22nd
A simple message on Father’s Day by President Obama has some religious right organizations up in arms: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. We owe a special debt of gratitude for those parents serving in the United States Armed Forces and their families, whose sacrifices protect the lives and liberties of all American children. For the character they build, the doors they open, and the love they provide over our lifetimes, all our fathers deserve our unending appreciation and admiration.
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