Posts Tagged ‘poverty’

Health Reform Employment Mandate

December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

OK, Paul Krugman thinks this bill is far from perfect, but is a huge step in the right direction.  He’s an economist.  He should know.  I’m not an economist.  I’m an employer.  Different view of things obviously.  Here’s what I see: The Senate health care bill includes a well-known “employer mandate” provision that would require [...]

The Kentucky Poverty Task Force

September 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

I read a lot.  I work in social services.  I also live in the poorest Congressional District in the United States which is in one of the poorest states in the nation.  So, needless to say, I’ve seen poverty and deal with it rather regularly.  So, I took particular interest when I received this newsletter: [...]

545 People

August 19th, 2009 | No Comments

I love Snopes.com.  No telling what you’ll find there.  Humor, movies, sports, paranormal, extra-terrestrial, politics, you name it, it’s there.  One of today’s stories involve an opinion piece written by Charley Reese in 1985. Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. [...]

Top Ten Poverty Cities

February 18th, 2009 | 2 Comments

This is fun.  This is another one of those “fun with numbers” things I like to do.  I got this via email, so don’t really know it’s source.  I have verified the list itself ( it’s dated, but accurate ), I have not verified the added content.  If anyone finds an error, just holler. TOP TEN [...]