Transmitting what he has ... Ray Polk is a one-man social agency, offering food, clothes, counseling and a makeshift chapel to his fellow denizens of the streets.

ZIEBACH COUNTY, S.D. (AP) — In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line.

Typical dictatorial tactics on display here in Cairo & Alexandria: import the poor, migrant workers and combine them with the corrupt bureaucratic officials who have become the nouveau riche through the dispensation of the regime & employ them at critical junctures to counter the …

A crucial reminder that myths are precisely that: halfway between fact/truth & lies/falsity! As Joan says:

Perhaps we should listen to more of what the "real socialists" have to say.... What do you think?

The judge, Patricia Cosgrove, says that prosecutors refused to consider the lesser, misdemeanor charges & forced her to rule on the felonies:

We definitely need to heed Tim's advice to put away "the safe & sanitized version of this man & his compatriots" & "awaken from the stupor" which our "Ambien-induced haze" has cast upon us in order to deal with the legacies of injustice which MLK against which he spent his life f …

Government programs to pay the poor have lifted millions of people out of poverty in countries around the globe.

There are very few nations around the world that have not been almost entirely plundered by the global elite. When the elite speak of "investing" in poor countries, what they really mean is taking control of the land, water, oil and other natural resources.

It's happening all over the country. Union workers in both the public and private sectors have a target on their backs. Politicians are taking aim, determined to destroy the last remaining force dedicated to working people: the labor movement.

Jerusalem's Arab population prefers Israeli sovereignty to the prospect of living under Palestinian Authority rule, according to a column written by popular Arab writer Khaled Abu Toameh.

While a number of Americans cite religion as the most important influence on shaping their opinion on key social issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion and the death penalty, religious attitudes play a substantially lesser role when it comes to opinions on poverty, immigratio …

Hunger particularly affects children younger than 3, whose brains and bodies are growing rapidly.

Can you even imagine 49 million people? Miami's Land Shark Stadium, which will host Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, seats 75,000 fans. This country's hungry people would fill up 653 such stadiums.

As we in the United States keep our focus on our real and serious problems we have become myopic in our view of the rest of the world.

Bipartisan legislation that would mandate a comprehensive plan to combat violence against women worldwide is poised for a potential congressional vote, marking tough new action by the United States on a problem that's commonplace across the globe.

Poor people don't live as long as the wealthy, statistically speaking, and life expectancy in Compton is 12 years less than in La Cañada Flintridge, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today.

Students Build for the Homeless Community! While most kids are home enjoying the beginning of their summer vacations, some students are using their special skills to impact the lives of others by building wooden structures for the homeless.

More than 50 U.S. lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Agriculture Department to keep Monsanto's (MON.N) biotech alfalfa out of farm fields, despite a Supreme Court ruling this week that cleared the way for limited planting pending environmental reviews.

Opening Doors - Strategic Federal Plan to End Homelessness The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan that aspires to end homelessness among some of society's most vulnerable groups within the next decade.

Baby Boomer Suicides Increasing since 2006

Unemployed? Don't Bother Applying for a Job

"You have heard of me and others eating grasshoppers. But they were cooked.

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"For the world to tackle truly important problems, people have to stop looking to religion to guide their moral compasses.."