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Left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center Lays Off 60 Union Workers
	06/13/2024 9:15:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies Breitbart ^ \| 06/13/2024 \| Simon Kent The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is cutting staff numbers in what the nonprofit calls an effort to streamline operations. Sixty jobs are believed to have been axed in the move. Fox News reports several of the reported layoffs hit top officials in the organization’s union, which was reportedly formed in 2019 to fight “inequitable” practices amongst the workforce. “Today, SPLC — my employer — laid off over 60 of our union members, essentially shuttering multiple departments,” Hannah Gais wrote on X. today, SPLC — my employer —laid off over 60 of our union members, essentially shuttering multiple departments....

Thirty years after Mandela's election, young black voters in South Africa have turned against the ANC - scarred by an endless tide of violence, corruption and poverty. As the polls open today, SUE REID warns even greater turmoil may lie ahead...
	05/29/2024 3:54:45 AM PDT · by C19fan · 30 replies UK Daily Mail ^ \| May 29, 2024 \| Sue Reid Thank heavens it wasn't raining last Tuesday morning, as it can do in late autumn in South Africa. It would have meant a drenching for the most unusual politician fighting today's election — a 32-year-old farmer's son called Chris Pappas, who is white and gay. Peering through owlish glasses, he was giving a campaign speech to 70 locals in their decaying village hall, a half-day's drive inland from the coastal city of Durban in the sprawling province of KwaZulu-Natal. The building had gaping holes in the tin roof through which you could see the sky. In every window the glass...

America In 2024: Fast Food Is A “Luxury”, 11 Million Children Live In Poverty, And 1000s Of Stores Are Closing
	05/28/2024 2:13:34 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 35 replies The Economic Collapse Blog ^ \| 5/26/24 \| Michael Snyder Little by little, our standard of living has been eroding. A couple decades ago, we had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now most of the country is struggling. At this point, fast food is considered to be a “luxury”, 11 million children are living in poverty, and thousands of stores are permanently shutting down all over the United States because consumers have so little discretionary income these days. We are in the midst of a historic cost of living crisis, and those at the bottom of the economic food chain are...

Universal Basic Employment program aiming to reduce poverty in Cleveland
	05/25/2024 11:06:18 AM PDT · by EBH · 29 replies Cleveland 19 News ^ \| 5/21/24 The program will give 100 people in one of Cleveland’s neighborhoods a wage subsidy or guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year for three years. Participants will also receive health insurance through their employer. “Dignifying historically low wage work and beyond the direct care industry thinking about jobs like that turnover hospital beds and also jobs that happen in community through local coffee shops and diners and things like that,” Cotten said. Councilmember Stephanie Howse-Jones said the city council voted to invest $600,000 into the pilot. She said this program could be beneficial for both employees and businesses. “In this pilot,...

An Enormous Chunk Of The U.S. Population Is Either Homeless, Living In Poverty Or Considered To Be Among The Working Poor
	05/08/2024 4:28:36 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 67 replies The Economic Collapse Blog ^ \| 5/6/24 \| Michael Snyder As the U.S. economy slows down, those at the bottom of the economic food chain are being hit the hardest. Homelessness is surging, the number of Americans living in poverty is rising, and more Americans are considered to be among “the working poor” than ever before. Unfortunately, we are witnessing a historic economic shift right now, and economic conditions are only going to get even more harsh during the months ahead. Needless to say, that is really bad news for all of us. According to a report from Harvard University, approximately 650,000 Americans were homeless at some point last year....

Televangelist Jesse Duplantis brags about his wealth, Says if you’re in poverty it’s a curse
	04/30/2024 6:37:35 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 47 replies End Times Headlines ^ \| 4/24/24 \| staff Televangelist and prosperity gospel preacher Jesse Duplantis, who has an estimated net worth of around $20 million, has called poverty a “curse” and says his wealth — which includes a private jet and a 40,000-square-foot mansion in Louisiana — comes from being “blessed” by God. “Let me give you a prime example why I don’t care what people think about me, about what I have. Now look at me. Look at me. I am a very blessed man,” Duplantis said in an online “Boardroom Chat” session with his wife, Cathy, earlier this month. “Me and Cathy are very blessed. I’m...

‘Out of the frying pan and straight into hell’: Glen Campbell’s wild ride from poverty to insanity
	04/21/2024 11:52:09 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 37 replies Yahoo ^ \| 19 Apr 2024 \| Ian Winwood On April 11 1966, Glen Campbell was drafted in as a last minute rhythm guitarist for a recording session with Frank Sinatra. Unable to believe that he was in the presence of his idol, he spent much of his time at the studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, gazing worshipfully at the man laying down the vocal for Strangers In The Night. The attention did not go unnoticed. “Who,” Sinatra hissed, “is that f______ guitar player?” By the time his anonymous sideman had become a superstar in his own right, just two years later, Old Blue Eyes might well...

50 Years Ago: Elvis Songwriter Dies in Poverty, as He Predicted
	03/28/2024 5:19:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies UltimateClassicRock ^ \| March 28, 2024 \| Martin Kielty Most music fans today are aware there’s a long-running argument about whether the writers of the songs we love are fairly compensated for the profits made out of them. The internet brought the argument into the light, but it wasn’t really new. Since the era of recorded music began – and actually, long before that, when people bought sheet music rather than albums – the disagreement has raged on. It’s often assumed that those who reach certain heady heights will be more immune from being ripped off, if only because they can command bigger percentages and hire better lawyers. But...

Bernie Sanders’ four-day-work-week scheme is a prescription for poverty
	03/22/2024 6:40:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 27 replies New York Post ^ \| March 22, 2024 \| Rich Lowry Karl Marx would be proud: Bernie Sanders has urged taking another step toward the philosopher’s envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-day work week. In communist society, Marx wrote, workers would be liberated to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, raise cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd, or critic.” Needles to say that’s not how communism turned out. Yet the belief that work is basically a capitalist imposition that is unnatural and bad for people still holds sway on the left, and Sanders is,...

Secret Report: Trudeau’s High-Migration Canada Slides Toward Poverty and Chaos
	03/22/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies Breitbart ^ \| 03/22/2024 \| Neil Munro A government report in Canada forecasted a deep civic breakdown in the once-stable society that now suffers from unprecedented levels of elite-imposed migration. The secret and heavily redacted report was prepared by the country’s version of the FBI — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The partial copy was extracted from the agency by an academic lawyer and was published in Canada’s National Post newspaper.

Nearly 2M NYC residents live in poverty, including 1 in 4 children: report
	02/21/2024 12:48:00 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies The Hill ^ \| 02/21/2024 \| Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech \| Over half of New York City residents either live in poverty or are low-income, according to a new report from anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood and Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. The number of people across the five boroughs living in poverty jumped from 1.5 million to 2 million between 2021 and 2022, according to the Poverty Tracker Annual Report. That 500,000-person increase pushed the poverty rate in the city to 23 percent that year, or twice the national average of 11.5 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A renting family of four in New York City...

Central Banker Admits ‘Green Agenda’ Will Push Millions Into Poverty
	02/19/2024 9:38:29 AM PST · by Sam77 · 17 replies Disswire.com ^ \| 19 February 2024 \| Michael Taylor The economic price tag for making Europe “greener” could push millions into poverty as the EU governments pour millions into expensive low-carbon energy and renewables, according to a stark admission by the head of Belgium’s central bank. The “greener” alternative technologies to achieve “Net Zero” come at such high costs, making them unaffordable for many companies and ultimately pushing up consumer prices.

Released reservist reveals: Poverty? What life in Gaza really looks like
	01/15/2024 3:38:20 PM PST · by Uncle Miltie · 16 replies Israel National News ^ \| 1/15/24 \| INN Staff Channel 13 Journalist Roi Yanovsky, was discharged after 100 days of reserve duty, from the beginning of the war, and published a situation report on X, on his first-hand experience in the Gaza Strip. First, he points out that while Gaza is considered to be a very backward city, the situation is completely different. "Gaza is seen as a failing area, the 'most crowded in the world' which has been under Israeli 'siege' for years. There is no bigger lie than this. Gaza is a modern, beautiful, and developed city - with large and well-equipped houses, wide boulevards, public areas,...

DEI’s Attack Dog - The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting the Biden administration’s sham campaign against “domestic terrorism.”
	01/15/2024 8:00:26 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 14 replies City Journal ^ \| 12 Jan, 2024 \| Tyler O’Neil The movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion may have lost a prominent advocate in Harvard president Claudine Gay, but it continues to dominate America’s institutions. Worse, the Biden administration has apparently enlisted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of DEI’s most notorious ideological enforcers, in its crusade against “domestic terrorism.” The Southern Poverty Law Center gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s but in recent years has turned its fire on critics of DEI, demonizing parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education. Through its education arm, the SPLC...

Groceries in Trudeau’s Canada are so expensive that they’re driving up the poverty rate
	01/13/2024 11:29:30 AM PST · by spirited irish · 27 replies LifeSite ^ \| 1/12/24 \| Clare Marie Merkowsky “Marginal food insecurity captures worry about running out of food or limited food selection due to a lack of money,” said the note. “Moderate insecurity captures compromises in the quality or quantity of food due to lack of money; severe food insecurity captures missed meals, reduced food intake and at the most extreme going days without food.” In a recent report, Statistics Canada revealed that year over year Canadians were paying more for basic groceries. According to their data, prices had increased: 6 percent more for potatoes to an average $4.97 per kilogram; 7 percent more for stewing beef to...

On this day in 1964: LBJ calls for ‘war on poverty’ in America
	01/08/2024 8:14:05 AM PST · by TigerClaws · 54 replies Michigan Advance ^ On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” “Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national organization and support,” Johnson told the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. “But this attack, to be effective, must also be organized at the state and the local level and must be supported and directed by state and local efforts. Poverty in the United States stood at 19% in 1964, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Democratic former Texas U.S....

Mayorkas: We Have Record Border Numbers Due to Climate, Poverty, Authoritarianism
	01/03/2024 12:57:47 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies Breitbart ^ \| 01/03/2024 \| AN HANCHETT On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that there are record numbers of people coming to the southern border because there has been “the greatest number of displaced people, not only at our southern border, not only in the Western Hemisphere, but across the globe” And “the effects of climate change, poverty, increasing level[s] of authoritarianism” are the root causes of this. Co-host Willie Geist asked, “As you know, Mr. Secretary, Border Patrol, in the month of December, processed more migrants entering the United States illegally than any month in the history of that...

Mexican Cops Step Aside as New Migrant ‘Poverty’ Caravan Moves North
	12/28/2023 11:40:41 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies Breitbart ^ \| 12/28/2023 \| ILDEFONSO ORTIZ Mexican authorities stood down any efforts to contain a new migrant caravan that embarked this week from the southern part of Mexico. Authorities are currently escorting the groups and providing crowd control. Calling themselves the Poverty Exodus (Exodo de la Pobreza), the caravan, which is made up of more than 6,000 migrants, left the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, on Christmas Eve. The caravan is making its way north. In various parts of the journey, the migrants waved a banner with the caravan’s name and carried a white cross. Members of the group made public claims that their goal was to...

Huge 'Exodus from Poverty' migrant caravan makes its way up from southern Mexico: These are not Asylum Seekers, these are Economic Migrants Looking for an easier Life
	12/26/2023 8:04:15 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies American Thinker ^ \| 12/26/2023 \| Monica Showalter In addition to the tens of thousands of migrants entering the U.S. without authorization each day now, a huge 8,000-15,000-strong migrant caravan called "Exodus from Poverty" is headed to the states from southern Mexico now. They know full well that the border is open and Joe Biden is going to let them in. According to the New York Post's editorial:An estimated 8,000 people set off on Christmas Eve from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula.Destination: the border that Joe Biden threw wide open and refuses to enforce. Biden will do what he always does, blame Congress. But the failure is...

Boston considers guaranteed income program to fight poverty
	11/30/2023 6:44:51 AM PST · by millenial4freedom · 53 replies yahoo! news ^ \| 11/29/2023 \| WCVB - Boston The nearby cities of Cambridge and Chelsea have experimented with similar programs and supporters say it could be a boost to nearly 18% of Boston residents.

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