CHUCK DEVORE
Parents are eligible in all the nonexpansion states, but generally with very low income thresholds—the median income limit is 40% of the poverty level.2 In Texas, for example, which has the largest number of uninsured adults of any state, a parent with 2 children making more than $3733 ...
Second, the citizen’s right to energy has now to be asserted as a right to low carbon energy, or more generally as a right to low carbon living. There is some irony that Texas, a US state so deeply implicated in fossil fuels, is now experiencing a hard kick back from climatic change...
Poverty in the Rust Belt Blue-collarjobs have increasingly moved overseas, forcing local governments to rethink the type of manufacturing businesses that can succeed in the area. While some cities managed to adopt new technologies, others still struggle with rising poverty levels and declining populati...
As for Combs, the same reasons that attracted praise for "Fast Car" have also attracted criticism. The song, like Chapman herself, has been a lighthouse for people on the margins since its release in 1988, dealing as it does with poverty and loneliness and ...
In a way, we are setting police up to fail, becausethey are not preparedor even willing to address certain problems we assign them, but also because in most cases the system they enforce does not address them. While poverty is not illegal, it leads to many illegal acts, but the enforcem...
” And it turns out Pa could do a lot of things, but he couldn’t do anything well. And his family was in poverty essentially their whole life, living at the edge of existence. We talk about the term, “this guy’s a jack of all trades.” But the reality is, being a jack...
The Illinois Flag Display Act gives the Governor the power to order flags around the state to be lowered to half-staff whenever an Illinois member of the armed force, police force, fire service, or other person covered by the act is killed in the line of duty. ...
Similar findings can be seen across the world, even in countries seen as socialist and equal, like Sweden. These factors are not simply the result of choices made by individuals, but reflect the entrenched systems of power in which they exist. Weak inheritance taxes inevitably lead to ...
poverty, the lack of access to water, the absence of decent infrastructure or income generating opportunities, the deteriorating health system and the corrupt governance and put it into perspective with the fact that organisations such as mine at the time, would only come in when a sudden-onset...