Archive for October 2013 | Monthly archive page
by Jamison Maeda
The United States is home to 442 billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. It conjures images of movie star mansions, Beverly Hills, and Manhattan’s 5th Avenue. But the truth is, 1 in 6 Americans are “food insecure,” which is how politicians describe people who don’t have enough food to survive.
In many states, including Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama, hunger affects over 19% of the population.
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Leaders Questions on the report from the Comptroller & Auditor General into abuse of the penalty points system.
The latest statistics on Irish emigration, published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), show an increase in emigration with over 243 people leaving the country every day. No matter how much spin the right wing media attempt to put on these figures they cannot be explained away as a shift in the lifestyle decisions of young Irish people, they represent an economic and social crisis.
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