World-News

By CanSpeccy

The latest poverty statistics that show the number of American families with an income of less than two dollars per person per day more than doubled between 1996 and 2011.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30765.htm



How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World

By Michael Parenti

Isn t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world, and want to own it all, are ''incompetent'' or ''misguided'' or ''failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17102.htm

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The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on. The rest of us ought to be having a serious discussion about a wealth tax. Because if you really want to know what s happening to the American economy you need to look at household wealth, not just incomes.''

http://www.truth-out.org/widening-wealth-divide-and-why-we-need-surtax-super-wealthy/1331660880



How We Cured ''the Culture of Poverty,'' Not Poverty Itself

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch: ''Fifty years later, a new discovery of poverty is long overdue. This time, we ll have to take account not only of stereotypical Skid Row residents and Appalachians, but of foreclosed-upon suburbanites, laid-off tech workers, and America s ever-growing army of the working poor. And if we look closely enough, we ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.''

http://www.truth-out.org/how-we-cured-culture-poverty-not-poverty-itself/1331821823

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The War on the Poor
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=7024#newspost



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