2 days ago by The Bleat

Job creators need low-income laborers. It's not that they are bad greedy people, but they are clever business folks. They tangle with the government and get the rules changed in their favor. If you have money or if you have power, you have a good chance and influencing laws. When it comes to the Ear ...

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9 days ago by Dan Graziano

The Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday the reformation and modernization of the Lifeline program. The revamped program will ensure affordable phone service is available to low-income families. Lifeline is a “universal service program that fulfills Congress’s mandate to ensure the ...

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9 days ago by ----------------------

The province has changed the way that tax refunds are paid to low income people and this means that these credits are no longer being paid in lump-sum tax refunds. Many low-income people count on the lump sum during Christmas and Easter and sell their taxes for a nominal fee. Low-income people, thin ...

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10 days ago by snosh

With a site redesign freshly under its belt, the FCC's setting its recently honed eye for modernization on other, more pertinent areas of its jurisdiction -- like Lifeline. The universal program, a means of guaranteeing affordable phone service to low...

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10 days ago by Joseph Volpe

With a site redesign freshly under its belt, the FCC's setting its recently honed eye for modernization on other, more pertinent areas of its jurisdiction -- like Lifeline. The universal program, a means of guaranteeing affordable phone service to low-income families, hadn't exactly kept pace with c ...

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10 days ago by Shelley Stonebrook

A couple of weeks ago, a blogger at Mother Earth News, Gwen Roland, posted an article with some wonderful stories of rescued dogs and shared a great idea for a way pet lovers can help dogs in need: by starting a pet food pantry. One such pet food pantry, Coco’s Cupboard, has helped save the lives [. ...

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16 days ago by Kristen Philipkoski

Teenagers across the country are being wrongly denied Plan B by pharmacists who are apparently terrible at their job, according to a new study. More »

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23 days ago by Linda Carroll

By Linda Carroll Many low-income parents feel they must resort to “formula stretching,” to keep their infants fed, even with government food assistance programs, a new study shows. The study found that 30 percent of parents who brought their infants to an inner city children’s clinic didn’t have eno ...

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24 days ago by WTPS

WASHINGTON — The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets. As a result, many 3- and 4-year-olds aren’t going to preschool. SEE ALSO: Gingrich Faces Tough Crowd At Black Church Kids from low-income fa ...

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27 days ago by The American Middle

A recent article in the New York Times, the most liberal of all print media, made the claim that the internet was the new divide between the rich and poor as well as the black and white. The article claimed that while the rich rode the digital "high-speed superhighway", the poor or members of minori ...

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