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*This afternoon, the Fox News program “Happening Now” debated a new Tennessee proposal that would tie parents’ welfare payments to their kids’ school grades, leading to a clash between the law’s creator and a former superintendent who finds the idea to be misguided at best, reports Mediate. Republican State Rep. Stacey Campfield explained that the [...]
*The Caylee Anthony story still gives people the chills and frustrates them years after her disappearance in 2008. The mother of the slain child, Casey Anthony, knew she hadn’t seen the child in nearly a month, but she still hadn’t reported the child missing…just like the newest case. Dontrell Melvin was last seen in July [...]
*Socialism has gotten a bad reputation in our country. Because of a misnomer on the part of the Soviet Union, it has been unfairly equated with communism since the end of World War II. During the 19th century socialists were implicated in several attacks on government and corporations. In reality socialism is an economic philosophy [...]
*President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room this afternoon to address Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s claim that he has “gutted” work requirements for folks on welfare. Obama called the charge “absolutely wrong.” [Scroll down to watch.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] A reporter asked Obama if he was comfortable [...]
*There are many poor people in this country who have welfare. But now, several states are trying to take that right away if you use any types of drugs through drug testing. Do you think this violates peoples’ civil rights? Dr. Boyce Watkins contributed an op-ed that tackles the controversial issue. Several states have been [...]
*Georgia has joined at least two dozen other states that are pushing drug tests for welfare recipients. The mostly Republican state assembly claims it wants to insure welfare benefits are used the way they were intended and not in the commission of criminal activity. Last October a federal judge stopped Florida from drug-testing its residents [...]
*Recently, we reported welfare nightmares where people were over compensated by their state’s social services and then we hear this. This woman was denied food stamps for her and her two children and it took her to a place where no man or woman should go in their spirit. (more…)
*Ok! Ok! Hold up! What in the fraggle nackle bull shiggidy is goin’ on? How is it that a chiropractor and his wife with their own private business in Seattle, Washington, can collect SSI, WIC, food stamps, and collect a welfare check (okay… just the Social Security) and no one is the wiser for nearly [...]
*Remember back in March when we told you about Florida’s governor Rick Scott (R), preparing to require any potential welfare recipient to first pay a $35 fee for a drug test before they could be eligible? Well, the law went into effect in July, but now a judge has put the smacketh down and stopped the [...]
*We reported a story from the Detroit News in September that put Michigan’s residents on alert that those who had been on government assistance since 2007 would have to prepare to lose their aid. The state of Michigan is already in a financial state of emergency, then they tell residents to prepare to lose any type of welfare [...]
*Michigan has been taking financial hit after hit after hit. The city of Detroit and the rest of the state have buckled under the effects of unemployment rate like no other. Now the republican governor for the state is enforcing the previous governor’s plan for cutting off cash benefits to welfare recipients. Can anyone say “Dead [...]
*The governors all over the nation are scrambling to find ways to cut corners, but you just gotta laugh when you hear the idea out of Florida. It’s reminiscent of an idea D.C. was looking over a few years ago to get the women addicted to crack to stop having babies. They wanted to pay crackheads [...]
*Supply side economics is a logically inconsistent perspective. It is a perspective on how economics work that is dependent on the profit motive of people to benefit society. More specifically supply side economics theory says that by stimulating the people who supply the marketplace with goods and services (business owners and management) , the economy [...]
*The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is testing their membership waters with the proposal of two newly elected GOP representatives to Congress … oops! two African American republican representatives to Congress. The door has never been closed to republicans, but the CBC hasn’t had any in their membership in quite some time. Congress hasn’t had any black republicans [...]
*You know the economy is bad when thousands of folks trample over each other for Section 8 housing. Over 30,000 Georgia residents rushed into an Atlanta parking lot on Thursday. It was so bad that people were fighting folks, kids got kicked, and police was beatin’ some tail. People had been waiting in line for [...]
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