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-SouthGA

Poverty:2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-reports-poverty-rate-down-but-millions-still-poor

What I see as the most important tidbit to take home here:

"The Census Bureau also found that there was little change in income inequality last year. The top 20 percent of households received more than half of all income. "

Yep, poor people run the world.

Not!

-David

The Homeless Boulders

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/25/us/san-francisco-homeless-boulders-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

I can completely empathize with needing to stop gang violence...but I can not understand how stopping people from pitching tents will help in the long term. The folks here have been driven out of areas little by little, with no real reason or rhyme besides they are "in the way".

We're better than this, America.

-David

The Rural Ghetto

"The Okeechobee Center is part of a little-known government initiative that houses more than 400,000 low-income families in about 13,000 privately owned properties across rural America, from Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta to California’s Central Valley. Built with federal loans, the properties are intended to address a shortage of quality, affordable housing in rural areas, with some specifically dedicated to agricultural workers."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/rats-roaches-mold-under-usda-s-watch-some-rural-public-n1057016

A very interesting read about some of the the most underserved in rural America. Yet again, private+public does not equal success.

There are no simple answers...but there is also no excuse for this squallor.

-David

UAW Strikes....

"GM says its average hourly employee earns about $90,000 per year, not including benefits. But the number of hourly workers at GM has declined sharply in recent decades, due to a combination of automation, lost market share and outsourcing."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/business/uaw-gm-strike-general-motors/index.html

I get it. You've got to make a stand. But when someone is making big money to do some very basic work....it gives everyone else a bad reputation.

-David

Never Forget...

9/11/01... everything we knew as a nation changed.

From all of us here at "PIA", a heartfelt thank you to all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice...and for those who continue to put their lives on the line so we may be free.

-David

It's coming...

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/10/health/carlsbad-new-mexico-hospital-eprise/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

It's going to get worse before it gets better...

-David w