The terrible rise in gasoline taxes has placed its burden in an unexpected place: In the stomachs of the homebound elderly living alone.
Continue reading → The Bus of Big Business: Too Old to Drive, Too Young to Die
What happens to a free nation and a freedom of spirit when the economy is so bad families are forced to go on food stamps in order to survive? Freedom dies in growling stomachs.
Continue reading → American Hungering: Starving Freedom on Food Stamps
Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was a man that saw a mountain and climbed it.
He was a man that found the mountaintop and touched it.
He was the creator of a light that lives beyond the common man and lights the valley of our ways.
It has always been treacherous to be Black in America — and if you’re a Black Man in America — your chances for even average survival are slimmer than your White peers.
Continue reading → Crimes of Birth: Dying Black in the Urban Core
There’s an old saying about the crisis of being born: “You can’t pick your parents.” There’s another unspoken — yet harder and uncrackable — chestnut that rings truer and harsher: “You can’t pick your income level.” For children across the world, that reality means millions are condemned to lifelong suffering because they were born into poverty without any sort of clear economic path for breaking free of that chain.
Continue reading → Born Poor and Condemned to Lifelong Poverty
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