Tag Archives: Poverty
Florida Proposes That Poor Pay Three Times More For Health Insurance Than Legislators
May 17, 2013
According to the 2010 Census, 16.7 percent of all Americans do not have health insurance. Of this population, six in 10 uninsured households have at least one adult working full time, per the Kaiser Family Foundation.
With the average...
Addressing Media Bias, Activists Petition NYT To Revise Coverage Of Chavez
By Mint Press News Desk
In the USA, the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continues to be labeled a “dictator,” a “despot” and a “tyrant” who oppressed his country during his 14 years in office. The image is inconsistent with the reports of elections monitors who have declared...
‘Thirdworldizing’ America
By Stephen Lendman
Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America’s “new growth industry.” The state of today’s America is deplorable.
In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said April “employment and unemployment...
Fast-Food Workers Demand Better Wages As Strikes Spread To Detroit
By Martin Michaels
The fast-food strikes are growing. What started as a small walkout by workers in New York a month ago spread to Chicago, St. Louis and most recently to Detroit, where hundreds of workers from 60 fast-food restaurants walked off the job Friday demanding a minimum wage of...
North Korea Sees Surge Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
By Jessica Phelan and Geoffrey Cain
North Korea is facing a surge of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDRTB, an aid group has warned.
At least 5,000 cases of TB that can’t be treated with conventional antibiotics are reported in North Korea each year, according to Stephen Linton, chairman of the...
Why Does The US Lead The Western World In First-Day Infant Deaths?
By Frederick Reese
Throughout the world, first-day mortality claims over a million babies per day, as reported this week by Save the Children. According to the organization’s “State of the World’s Mothers” report, newborn mortality now represents 43 percent of the global under-5 mortality....
Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion, Online Marketplaces Offer Veterans New Care Options
By Michelle Andrews
Military veterans will have more health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act, but some vets, like many Americans, may still struggle to find affordable, accessible care that meets their needs.
Roughly 40 percent of the 22.3 million military veterans receive health...
“Patriot” Terror Plot Thwarted — This Time In Minnesota
By Martin Michaels
Buford Rogers, a suspected terrorist and alleged member of anti-government “patriot” group the Black Snake Militia (BSM), was arrested Friday when authorities found firearms and bomb-making materials stockpiled in his Montevideo, Minn., home.
According to the Anti-Defamation...
Scenic, Strugglling S. Illinois Braces For Oil Rush
By The Associated Press
This is the Illinois that many people never see — the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps.
Blacktopped county roads wend through no-stoplight towns. Locals speak in soft drawls...
Religious Divide, Poverty Drive Terrorist Back-And-Forth In Nigeria
By Nick Street
JOS, Nigeria — Worshipers filed past sentries armed with automatic weapons and filtered through a line of shoulder-high concrete pylons before reaching the headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria. The pylons were installed in early 2012, after a car loaded with...
