Tag: Poverty
DC mom given $10,800 lump sum for poor families blows most of it on luxury holiday
Canethia Miller, Washington DC mom given $10,800 taxpayer funded lump sum for poor families blows most of it on luxury holiday, but insists she learned a valuable lesson.
At least she got to put $50 of it aside... A Washington...
Why Brutal Crimes Are Increasing All Around The Globe
What's causing brutal crimes to go up across the world? Exploring defunding law enforcement, poverty, influx of immigration, population growth, role of wealth & higher poverty as world economy capitulates in 2020.
American, Asian, European, and Australian states, cities, municipalities,...
Mayumi Saito Osaka mom drowns four newborn babies in concrete cause she was too poor
Mayumi Saito an Osaka, Japanese mother confesses to drowning four newborn babies in concrete buckets over a five year period cause she was too poor.
Mayumi Saito a 53 year old Japanese woman was on Tuesday arrested after confessing to putting...
Why did Bruce Chadwick ex Columbia University professor kill self?
What led to Bruce Chadwick a former Columbia University professor and consultant killing himself? Suicide suspected after suicide letters found.
Bruce Chadwick, 48, a former Columbia University professor has been found dead inside a rental car Thursday night.
The educator’s death...
The stock market has decided it’s not in the mood for a summer rally after all. America is back...
It's been a kind of weird dichotomy of late, where on one hand you had one enclave, called most of America, having a genuine miserable economic existence and that of another enclave, called wall street and corporations saluting the...
The Melting Middle Class: Why you are super rich or barely hanging by a thread.
In a poll conducted in 2007, CBS asked nearly 1,000 people to define their socioeconomic status. Of those polled, only two percent said they were upper class, and only seven percent defined themselves as “lower class.” This means that over 90...
A new study confirms it’s too expensive to live in NYC.
Confirming the obvious.
A report released by the Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement has confirmed the obvious for us this morning. Yes living in NYC is an impossible proposition. Why? Let's find out once and ...
How to survive NYC with no money.
Solving life's greatest dilemmas.
Living in NYC is by most accounts one of the most exuberant experiences any one human being can have, having said that you will pretty soon notice living here costs a pretty penny....
The most preferred places to be homeless in America.
Life in 2010.
A cursory look around America wont reveal too much good news these days. With unemployment on the rise and the the disparity between the haves and the have nots gaining altitude we decided to...
Being poor is the new reality in America. No time for tears.
When being poor in America may not be as bad as you think it is.
By now we all know that we are living in a collective economic contraction that has taken a heavy toll on our collective prosperity and...
It’s Confirmed: Banks Don’t Care For You If You Are Poor.
Wealth in America.
An interesting report from the Washington Post today offers some sobering observations- it doesn’t pay off to be poor. In fact the situation is so dire for most households who earn less than $30, 000 that the...
Terror: India Labor Class Uprising 2009.
Why the Yanks prefer to ignore their pain instead.
You might not know it but India has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in recent years. With 8 percent annual growth there has been a shifting...
Landlord v. Tenant: the Unending Battle.
Characters
Tenant: 23 year-old naïve, recent graduate from a Pennsylvania suburb
Landlord: Cranky building-owner with residences all over Manhattan
Apartment: 200 sq ft. studio with no heat and no 2nd method of egress in case of fire
The City: ...
Mike Bloomberg Ran on “Progress not Politics.” Whose Idea of Progress?
Special Guest Contribution from Clayton Patterson.
Bloomberg loves us, wants to protect us, save us. He wants to make us financially secure. At least that is what he promised when he used his enormous wealth to flip the democratic...
The World is still collapsing but hot dogs still cost a dollar.
How to survive the foreclosure disaster.
Out of the Wall Street Journal comes another disengaging story of life on skid row. Actually your life on skid row.
Reports the Wall St Journal ;
Despite some tentative signs of recovery, the U.S. housing...
