The Deep State is the federal bureaucracy that creates laws, enforces them, and judges and punishes transgressors, which means it possesses all three powers that are supposed to be separate in America: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Nice to readSteven Pinkersupporting my 2011 post as he writes, “extreme poverty has plummeted and may disappear; and both international and global inequality coefficients are in decline. Now, it’s true that the world’s poor have gotten richer in part at the expense of the American lower ...
The state willinvest $7 billion over four yearsto expand subsidized child care to help families of three making $70,000 or less (or 300% the poverty level) access care. However, the expanded child care will not include undocumented kids, much to the chagrin of some Democratic lawmakers. Th...
Also, I’m not convinced it is valid to label Macron a neoliberal. For sure he wants to see a more efficient state but no way is he a Thatcherite-Reaganite. If the media were labelling his changes to the railways and pensions etc as neoliberal then that is just wrong. Has he got an...
If a state wants to do this for transactions between people in the state, and is willing to accept taxes in bullion for transactions or income denominated in gold or silver ounces, but anyone who wants to do everything in dollars can still do so, this appears to be permitted by the cons...
A weak economy, high unemployment, and household incomes near the poverty are all major factors that land Monticello at #1Money Inc's 20 worst places to live in New York. On the flipside crime rates in Monticello are low and living in the foothills of the Catskills is not a bad place to...
Assemblymember Anna Kelles speaking at a NY Renews rally in January. Photo courtesy of NY Renews. Uncertainty and Anziety Close on the heels of this question is a related issue: the State Climate Action Council has developed a substantive, thoughtfulroadmapfor meeting the ambitious goals of the...
You must project to claim at least 100% of the Federal Poverty Level in household income to qualify for tax credits through ObamaCare. This is true in all states.
Community members regularly distinguish between who deserves what he/she has earned and who does not deserve their poverty and unequal treatment. According to MacIntyre (1984: 250), "the notion of desert is at home only in the context of a community whose primary bond is a shared ...
The double orphans living in sibling-headed households are not only poor, but appear to be living with a considerably higher level of stress than other orphans, and certainly more than other children living in intact families, whether in poverty or not. Consequently, they seem to be particu-...