Among the ideas that have been floated for reducing the Social Security budget is to raise the eligibility age to receive benefits. It is
Category: Charity & Justice
He has a dream, too…for Martin Luther King Street/Drive/Avenue
One of comedian Chris Rock’s trademarked bits is the one about Martin Luther King Avenue. Rock, musing on African-American history and what people remember
“42:” Jackie Robinson and America’s unfinished social agenda
The new movie, “42,” tells the should-be-well-known story of Jackie Robinson, the first black player in major league baseball. For American sports fans of
ALEC’s real goals: Destroy Medicare, Medicaid, OSHA, EPA and Head Start
I’ve been reading all the editorials and letters to the editor about bills in my state legislature that aim to further diminish the economic power of
Free trade isn’t free
Picture this. Normal, IL, 1988. While walking my dog, I stopped to chat with a neighbor. When I told her I was moving to
“A Place At the Table” reveals stark facts about food insecurity in U.S.
For the price of a few cans of food, I received a free ticket to a preview showing of A Place At the Table,
Birther goes after 102-year-old voter honored at State of the Union speech
The birthers just won’t go away, and now they’re transferred their wrath to Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old Miami voter–born in Haiti–whose perseverance in the
Paul Ryan’s mistaken definition of makers and takers
In his second inaugural speech, President Obama said: “The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things
Progressive victories in 2012
As the Republican party and “leadership” moves farther and farther out of the mainstream and deeper into the realm of extreme, irrational, anti-democracy, backward-facing,
Obama sees the poor as well as the middle class
Shortly after assuming the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson announced his commitment to a war on poverty. That