No matter where you stand politically, this fact is not subject to debate: when people have access to health care and medical services, they live longer, better and more productive lives. When it isn’t available or the cost is prohibitive, mortality rates are higher; people don’t live as long; and the quality of those lives, … Continue reading »
“Republicans complaining about the households not paying enough who also want to cut taxes overall are asking the poor to subsidize a tax cut for the rich…” Here’s a fresh quote from the latest non-Romney front-runner in the GOP presidential race: “This dividing of America [between] 99-1,” Rick Santorum said this morning in New Hampshire, “It’s anybody that … Continue reading »
Punishment Just Teaches Kids To Be Better Liars Screaming at your toddler for finger-painting your computer won’t deter future acts of deviant self-expression, but it will probably help her tell a more convincing lie in ten years about the missing vodka in your liquor cabinet. In a study most likely funded by crafty, far-sighted children hoping to … Continue reading »
A lawyer for a former Penn State assistant football coach accused of molesting boys said Tuesday he didn’t mean to refer to a gay sex phone line when he said anyone who believes university officials thought his client raped a 10-year-old boy and did little about it should call 1-800-REALITY. The phrase is one attorney … Continue reading »
From Michael Gershon’s blog at The Washington Post online… Michele Bachmann is a candidate of whopping internal contradictions. Earlier this month, I heard the Minnesota congresswoman give her Christian testimony at a church service in Osceola, Iowa. She told the story of her father leaving her mother, of the economic struggles her family faced, … Continue reading »
One year at Princeton University: $37,000. One year at a New Jersey state prison: $44,000. Prison and college “are the two most divergent paths one can take in life,” Joseph Staten, an info-graphic researcher with Public Administration, says. Whereas one is a positive experience that increases lifetime earning potential, the other is a near dead end, which is why … Continue reading »
Following eight months of consumer testing, J.P. Morgan Chase [JPM] has decided that it won’t charge customers who use their debit cards to make purchases… J.P. Morgan joins U.S. Bancorp [USB], Citigroup Inc. [C], PNC Financial Services Group Inc. [PNC], KeyCorp [KEY] and other large banks that have said in recent days that they won’t … Continue reading »
A T-Mobile customer in Florida was “shaking and crying” when she received a phone bill of more than $200,000 last month, largely because her younger brother didn’t turn off data roaming during a vacation in Canada. Celina Aarons has a T-Mobile family plan she shares with her five younger siblings, and usually pays around $175 … Continue reading »
First they charge up to $5.00 per transaction at the ATM machine… Now we can look forward to both monthly charges AND per swipe fees for the privilege of using a bank debit card while shopping. It’s time to start carrying cash again, consumers. Read the infuriating article in the New York Times… Related articles … Continue reading »
From an article by the New Yorker’s John Cassidy The latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well covered in the Times and elsewhere: 46 million Americans living under the poverty line in 2010, the highest number since the Commerce Department started … Continue reading »
