Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes
Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.
Carney ran against Trump’s ‘Conservative buddies,’ then governed as their collaborator. Military spending hikes, Big Tech tax cuts, and anti-Indigenous bills reveal the truth: his base was always capital, not Canadians.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/carney-promised-resistance-and-delivered-retreat
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The City of Moreton Bay claims homeless people “consented” to having their tents and belongings – including a woman’s daughter’s ashes – thrown in the bin. This is what passes for policy now?
We’re criminalising poverty, bulldozing dignity, and calling it governance. Fines over $8,000 for sleeping rough, yet zero accountability for systemic failure.
If this is the norm, we’re in deep moral decline.
#homelessness #australia #housingcrisis #humanrights #moretonbay #poverty #socialjustice #brisbane #auspol
https://www.europesays.com/us/49700/ Syracuse’s broadband service, Surge Link, expands to more impoverished neighborhoods #BroadbandService #ConnectALL #expansion #Internet #neighborhoods #Poverty #SurgeLink #syracuse #Technology #unemployment #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US
Jeffrey St Clair posted this clip and writes:
The Secretary of Agriculture thinks that she can mass deport all immigrant farm workers and replace them with automation and people forced to work to keep their Medicaid..."I can’t underscore enough. There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations will continue. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation and with 34 million able-bodied people on Medicaid we should able to do this fairly quickly.”
While child poverty worsened considerably under more than a decade of Tory govt., its also clear that Labour's refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap is compounding that effect.
As the Children's Commissioner observes, children, 'don’t talk about ‘poverty’ as an abstract concept but about not having the things that most people would consider basic'... no wonder Rachel de Souza refers to this as Dickensian.
As a society we should find this unacceptable!
https://www.europesays.com/2226237/ IMF says Nigeria must raise revenue, fix budget to support growth #Economy #IMF #InternationalMonetaryFund #InternationalMonetaryFund(imf) #Nigeria #Poverty #PREMIUMTIMES
We are not spending too much on welfare
We’ve refused to tax the rich
We are refusing to invest in the public
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Most of us are three bad months away from being homeless.
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Michael Hudson in conversation with Steve Keen
https://www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66zNB_w?si=kfXgwVH666pwAjOT
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The intelligence of America's #political elite is that of a tree stump with it's base rooted in rotting soil, fertilized with fear and hate, the base held up the tree stump, but it is a dead tree that will bear no fruit, and will only continue to decay, rot and taint the soil, the roots are soaked in poison and are suffocating themselves as they try to feed the stump of America's political machine; #Politics in America are a barren wasteland where a vibrant forest once stood, the rot of greed, power, hate and fear have effectively salted the soil and killed the #liberty that was #America.
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No Kings, No Priests
I was wandering around Bilbao this summer with my son, and my Basque friend A., and we stumbled across this bust of John Adams, which I thought was a very peculiar thing to find in the Basque Country. But when I read the inscription, it said:
“Biscay (Letter IV, a Defence of the constitutions of the government of the USA 1787)…this extraordinary people have preserved their ancient language, genius, laws, government and manners without innovation, longer than any other nation of Europe.”
In 1779, Adams and his sons were on their way to Paris to sign a commercial treaty with Great Britain and to end the Revolutionary War. Weather forced them into the Bay Biscay and they had to travel to Paris by land, stopping first in Bilbao. There he visited the Gardoqui family, which had helped fund the American revolutionaries. Adams was appalled at the incredible poverty he saw through Spain, particularly in comparison with the incredible wealth of the Church, writing “I see nothing but Signs of Poverty and Misery, among the People. A fertile Country, not half cultivated, People ragged and dirty, and the Houses universally nothing but Mire, Smoke, Fleas and Lice. Nothing appears rich but the Churches, nobody fat, but the Clergy.”
The actual quote on his statue in Bilbao leaves out an important context. What he actually said was: “While their neighbours have long since resigned all their pretensions into the hands of kings and priests, this extraordinary people [the Basque] have preserved their ancient language, genius, laws, government, and manners, without innovation, longer than any other nation of Europe.” He went on to say: “It is a republic; and one of the privileges they have most insisted on, is not to have a king.” He was not, however, completely sold, criticizing the fact that the vote was only extended to “… a few noble families, unstained, both by the side of father and mother, by any mixture with Moors, Jews, new converts, penitentiaries of the inquisition, &c.”
Concentrated ownership of our economy, and the inequality and plutocracy that result from it, are causing deep distress among working and young people who feel — quite accurately — that the economy is rigged against them. #plutocracy #inequality #poverty #canada
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carneys-economic-agenda-misses-something-vital/article_99fb8754-1a1a-41ca-ad40-ff91ff86f857.html
From this week's #FilosoficalFragments :
our great shame
Especially now that it’s gotten warmer, I have (on one or two occasions) found myself craving ice cream in the middle of the night. The great thing about Toronto is that there is never a time when you are completely without the possibility of ice cream, so the last time I found myself in this […] …
https://elfilosofo.ca/2025/07/06/our-great-shame/
https://www.alojapan.com/1314755/80-of-lower-income-families-in-japan-say-financial-situation-getting-worse/ 80% of lower-income families in Japan say financial situation getting worse #aid #children #inflation #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #Poverty #surveys Around 80% of lower-income families with children in Japan said that their household finances are much worse than last year, a survey by nonprofit group Kidsdoor has shown. A Kidsdoor official has called on the government to create a system in which people can raise children with a sense…
Hope: is shared leadership that cares to tackle injustices and our climate crisis. Hope isn’t blind faith, it’s trust and belief in a plan that has sight of a positive future.
Hope, is to end plans for war and societal collapse in Westminster.
Bodies of two men in dilapidated Sydney house could have been undiscovered by housemate for weeks.
Adelaide 2011/12 neighbour called police for welfare check when I was on holidays.
Yes, I admit it was embarrassing to hear at uni that the police had been looking for me.
This year in BNE, RE told judge I “chose” to live “that way” (possum in roof) after being refused assistance for my #poverty #disabilities & exhaustion from all providers, #auspol & NPO.
Judge agreed.
Stones of David
