Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/03/doctors-urge-government-fight-poverty-victorian-diseases #Infectiousdiseases #Medicalresearch #Microbiology #Inequality #Doctors #Society #Science #Poverty #Health #UKnews
Importance Score: 78 / 100 » Javier Milei's Free Market Reforms Are Starting To Pay Off -
Argentina Sees Significant Drop in Poverty Amid Economic Overhaul
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Official data reveals a ...
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It became hard to discern what is truth or not in post-truth times when insane governments appear to mainly act on selfish and/or bigoted impulses.
That said the majority of USA citizens have ancestral roots tracing back to colonizers, while the true indigenous people of the first nations lands are the Native Americans.
And by the way, Donald Trump maternal grandparents, Elizabeth Christ Trump (née Kühn) & Friedrich Christ Trump, were immigrants from Germany who came to the United States during the late 19th century.
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"The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain.
At least 40% of staff got layoff notices and many were turned away at the front door Tuesday when they showed up for work at the Administration for Community Living, or ACL, which coordinates federal policy on aging and disability."
"Desperate poverty is the future of the UK and USA" [ ± 1min]
by garyseconomics [Mar 20, 2025]
Losing sight of the "big picture" while fixated on a detail: https://www.aurianneor.org/losing-sight-of-the-big-picture-while-fixated-on-a-detail/
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Without touching a penny of their existing wealth, while still leaving $500,000 per year income each, the top 1% in America could raise everyone above the poverty line 3,781 times over.
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Continuing my own mini-filibuster inspired by Booker's unbelievable one, I want to add also my thoughts on the issue of deregulation of consumer protections.
In a 2009 essay, I made an argument that credit cards, especially the high rate ones, are a safety net of last resort, available to the poor who are ABANDONED by public safety nets, but who are forced to rent a second government that DOES offer a safety net. Those high interest rates are the TAX they pay to that privately rented government that offers them a lifeline. But the tax is not deductible. So they are double-taxed in a way rich people and businesses would never stand for. That's overly brief, but maybe you see where I was going. See the essay for more detail.
Credit Cards: A Tax on "Being Poor"
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/01/credit-cards-a-tax-on-being-poor.html
Continuing on a parallel commentary with Booker's AMAZING ongoing speech, I just want to inject by way of solidarity...
It's not just about stopping the bleeding, and there ARE surely people who are literally bleeding (or worse), it's about insisting on a better morality.
One of the issues is this whole issue of taxation, just as a general proposition.
I do not side with those who think that everyone should be taxed. I've heard some say "everyone needs skin in the game". To that I say, being poor IS having skin in the game, it doesn't need us to add insult to injury.
I think we should tax the rich, not as a punitive thing, but because we live in a society where our morality should be that no one succeeds without bringing others along. We should tax legit surplus, in other words. And we should have a society where people ASPIRE to be wealthy enough to pay tax.
That we have created a society in which the rich can claim injury due to taxation but the poor cannot claim injury for having safety nets removed is a SERIOUS breach of morality.
You can read more detail on that in my 2009 essay Tax Policy and the Dewey Decimal System.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/02/tax-policy-and-dewey-decimal-system.html
I believe we should just GIVE #homeless people housing. They should not have to pay for it, have a job, or prove they deserve it.
The reason people stay homeless relates to the fact it is IMPOSSIBLE to fix your life without a safe place to rest, keep your stuff, and be hygienic.
Nobody is helping them, so they stay homeless.
Other counties have proved that if you just give someone housing and hope, most fix their life.
That's all I needed at least.
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"The suffering will continue until you are all dead. I'm all though, Jack..."
Donald Trump's policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else.
His administration includes 13 billionaires, and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a large consumption tax on the poor and working class.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/30/populism-trump-rich-billionaires-taxes/
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#status #update #life #economics #poverty #ukpol #pensions #prices Well that's me bolloxed then. After cost of living rises + utilities etc my net income <£10 p.w. than this time last year. Time to hit the road Palky?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/01/private-renting-england-affordable-housing-benefit-study?CMP=share_btn_url
Why landlords need to be regulated
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/why-landlords-need-to-be-regulated
The Hub is getting increasingly desperate to boost the flagging Cons
