The number of Americans living in communities of extreme poverty — neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the population is poor — soared by one-third between 2000 and the latter half of the decade,according to a new study from the Brookings Institution. The marked increase in so-called concentrated poverty underscores the distress tearing [...]
“and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.” — Revelation 13:17, HNV et al. Transliteration (may require the Greek fonts to be installed in order to view error-free): και [AND] ινα [THAT] μη τις [NO [...]
Just so that I’m clear on this… Our government leaders had very few qualms about handing off $700B to Wall Street and the financial institutions, and passed that level of funding in not time at all. Few stipulations were set into place, even. And that money came from the taxpayers (or will!), a decision that [...]
Newspapers across America yesterday published the latest news on the financial world. Citigroup, another financial corporation deemed “too big to fail” by the federal government, was promised $20 billion of our tax dollars while at the same time guaranteeing access to hundreds of billions of our tax dollars in the event of potential (some say [...]
