Low-ball to snowball: Underestimating poverty among older Americans
Instead of a life lived in dignity, many senior citizens have to scrimp, accept charitable hand-outs, and decide whether to pay for medicine or go hungry.
Time to save the children
Solutions are possible. Much will depend on whether the political will can be mustered. That will depend on mass struggle.
In New York, Lhota leans right
Lhota has a big problem: he wants to continue Bloomberg's pro Wall Street policies, but to get votes he must paint himself as a liberal. It appears that tactic is not going to fly.
ALEC tries new gerrymandering efforts in Ohio counties
The ALEC forces are now subjecting Ohio counties with a strong organized labor base, to an onslaught of proposed changes in county government which, if passed, will abolish countywide election of county leaders.
Bus stop holds life lessons
I do the "Park and Ride" thing, meaning I park my car at my daughter's high school visitor parking lot in the morning when I drop her off, and I catch the bus the rest of the way to work.
Thanksgiving in troubled times
Food, family, traffic jams, thankfulness - all are part of Thanksgiving, but, especially this year, there is more.
Children go hungry in America
Children go hungry throughout the United States, the richest country in the world. What is it about capitalism - or the so-called "free enterprise" system - that it does not fulfill such a basic need: adequate food?
Blogging from India #4 Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices
HYDERABAD, India — The Communist Party of India began its five-day congress here March 23 in a pouring rain unusual for the season and this area which mostly does not get enough. But the rain nourished the fighting spirit of Communists and their supporters.
