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Posts Tagged ‘economy special focus’
I’ve been asked for a few words about how the recession may affect poverty in the United States, and also about policy issues related to poverty that have emerged from the economic recovery legislation and from the budget debate on…
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Here’s a video lecture by Professor of Christian Ethnics Gary Dorrien on an alternative economic model: Economic Democracy. This lecture was given at Union Theological Seminary as apart of the class U.S. Christianity and the Current Social Crisis, team taught by…
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Tags: Capitalism, cooperative, Democracy, Democrats, Economic, economic democracy, economic model, Economics, economy special focus, Gary Dorrien, justice, Mobilization to End Poverty, Poverty, Seminary, socialism, union theological seminary, Video
Scanning the headlines recently, the following caught my attention: “Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured.” I read the article to find the hidden catch, but to my delight, I found only a company trying to use its resources…
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Tags: advocacy, budget, business, common good, compromise, Drugs, drugstore, Economic, Economics, economy special focus, Health, health care, Medicaid, medicaid reimbursement, neighbor, pharmaceutical service, Politics, public policy advocacy, retail drugstores, service, unstable economy, walgreens
When it comes to President Obama’s stimulus package and its provisions to help those Americans who are having great difficulty paying their home mortgages, I have come to realize that I’m like the older brother in the story of the…
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Not long ago, those who demonized government and preached the gospel of free-market fundamentalism with evangelical zeal had few worries. The titans of corporate America were glorified on the cover of Fortune, “trickle-down” economics justified obscene wealth disparities, and a…
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There’s been quite a lot in the news recently about AIG and its concerns about retaining “talented staff” if bonuses go unpaid. I too work with exceptionally talented men and women.
I am executive director of Joseph’s House, a small nonprofit in Washington, D.C., that…
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Tags: AIG, bonus, economy special focus, employee, employment, federal grant, Health, Homeless, job, layoff, money, nurses, retention bonus, salaried staff, salaries, serving, talented staff, unemployment, volunteers, Washington, Work
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Last night, millions of Americans went to Sunday school, or more accurately, Sunday school came to them through Comedy Central. In the culmination of a week long “cable network feud,” comedian Jon Stewart had CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer, and…
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Tags: adult sunday school, America, American, cnbc, comedian, easy money, Economic, economic crisis, Economics, economy special focus, employment, greed, interview, jim cramer, Jon Stewart, mad money, Media, money, moral crisis, role of the media, self interest, stock, stock market, sunday school teachers, Trade, unemployment, values, Wall Street
What does it say about our country that we have to hear the cold and hard truth from a comedian? Check out the videos below as comedian Jon Stewart interviews and exposes Jim Cramer – the hyped and elevated investment…
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Tags: bailout, bailout package, comedian, Economic, economic crisis, Economics, economy special focus, financial guru, global poverty, interview, jim cramer, Jon Stewart, Media, Multimedia, Prophetic, recession, Video, youtube
It’s always difficult to find just a few minutes from Pastor Efrem’s sermons to highlight on the blog. With this sermon, it was impossible. So for a change, here’s the entire sermon, in which he preaches from Proverbs 3 and…
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Tags: al sharpton, Audio, biblical wisdom, Community, Covenant, covenant relationship, Economics, economy special focus, feminine, financial discipline, hebrew scripture, kingdom, leaders, leadership, money, Multimedia, proverbs, rush limbaugh, Sanctuary, Scripture, values, wealth, wisdom
The “Church Potluck” is an old and cherished tradition in this country. Churches of all denominations and backgrounds ask their members to bring and donate a dish to share with the rest of the congregation for a lunch that they…
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Tags: America, church, churches, class, common good, dish, Economic, Economics, economy special focus, Family, food, Gordon Brown, Housing, mortgages, neighbor, Politics, potluck, Privilege, recession, serving, tradition, trust, values, Wall Street, wall street journal, wealth, wealthy
Last Friday, I met a vice president for the insurance giant AIG. While I try to be a gracious person, senior management for a giant corporation highly culpable for our current crisis and currently eating up billions in public funds…
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Tags: AIG, assets, bailout, business, Corporations, dollar, Economic, economic crisis, Economics, economy special focus, global economy, irresponsibility, money, retirement savings, senior management, stock
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Heads, Wall Street executives win; tails, the taxpayers lose. That’s the message of past months, which clearly show that investment banking and other big swaths of the U.S.’s “financialized economy” are, for all intents and purposes, insured by the U.S. government.…
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In these times of foreclosures, tight budgets, and shrinking funds, community builders feel like Jesus’ disciples with five loaves and two fishes and thousands to feed. During an earlier time before I retired from Bethel New Life, I reflected on doing more with…
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The economy and the nation are at a crossroads. Unemployment, poverty, and hardship are on the rise. For many years, official Washington has said, “It is not the time to deal with poverty,” whether in good or bad economic times.…
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Sadly, the debate around the economic recovery and stimulus package has often been characterized by the politics of the past rather than the politics of the future. Ideology too often trumps sound economics and recent experience. In the fight against…
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Tags: budgets, center for budget priorities, class, Congress, debate, Economic, economic crisis, economic recovery, Economics, economy special focus, job, money, Politics, Poor, Poverty, recession, stimulus, stimulus package, tax cut
I just watched President Obama’s Indiana speech and town hall meeting from my hotel room in San Diego. I was watching on MSNBC, with Chris Matthews hosting and Pat Buchanan commenting. Pat (predictably) panned the speech, saying that people in…
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I heard a report on NPR Monday that “The weather in London has now done what the German army could not; the busses have stopped.” The story continued to tell of how Londoners’ choices had been taken from them. Their freedom…
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Earlier this week the New York Times reported that even as many states have skyrocketing unemployment, their welfare rolls are shrinking. As a researcher for a racial justice think tank, I’ve been traveling the country collecting accounts of how this recession…
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Tags: AFDC, aid to families with dependent children, America, Children, class, development, Economic, economic crisis, Economics, economy special focus, Election, Families, Housing, Immigrant, immigrants, needy families, Obama, People of Color, Personal Responsibility, Politics, Poverty, racial, racial justice, racial stereotypes, recession, scapegoating, stereotype, system, TANF, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, unemployment, Welfare, welfare queen, welfare recipients, welfare reform, welfare rolls, White
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