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War On The Poor

By Susie Madrak

Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27717.htm



Michigan passes 'financial martial law' bill

Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency financial managers to break union contracts that struggling cities and school districts have with their workers.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51396.html



Remarks of Robert F. Kennedy, March 18, 1968

By Robert F. Kennedy

'But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27718.htm


From Information Clearing House

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America Not Broke, Wisconsin Not Broke; Were Just Wasting Money on War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-14



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