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Louisville, KY: Energy Bills move from $38 to $135 in last decade

Posted in Buffalo, Home heating, NY government, affordable housing, policy, poor, poverty, welfare on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With the looming 40% increase in fuel costs reported by National Grid, this article from Business First of Louisville is a reminder of the significant increase in the basic cost of living for many Americans. There can be no doubt that energy bills per month are much higher in Buffalo.
Moreover, these figures are taken during [...]

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Don’t Blame the Poor for Financial Crisis

Posted in 11835020, economic justice, federal policy, financial crisis, housing, misconceptions, news, policy, poor, poverty, racism on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some are blaming the current financial crisis on the poor.  This is not only wrong but offensive.
Newsweek has a good article outlining the attacks and placing the blame where it belongs.
Daniel Gross
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Oct 7, 2008 | Updated: 12:58 p.m. ET Oct 7, 2008
We’ve now entered a new stage of the financial crisis: the [...]

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Buffalo Reacts to the Bailout Bill

Posted in Buffalo, Erie County, economic justice, federal policy, mccain, misconceptions, obama, policy, poverty on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This video was put together by our friends over at the Coalition for Economic Justice and is absolutely worth a watch.

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“The Movement” Dance Party – Tonight!!!!

Posted in Buffalo, event, partnership for the public good, ppg on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Late last night we recieved an e-mail from our friend Aaron Bartley at PUSH.  It was a good reminder of the dance party being held tonight to benefit the Partnership for the Public Good and Massachusettes Avenue Project.  It should be a great time and its only 5 bucks to get in!  We hope to [...]

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Nickelsville “Tent City” Being Shutdown by Seattle Mayor

Posted in affordable housing, chronic homelessness, homeless, homelessness, tagged , on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The City of Seattle, WA has evicted 91 homeless campers in the Nickelsville tent city outside Seattle, WA. The City of Seattle has said that it has plenty shelter for those who are residing in the tent city; however, the One Night Count (think “Street Survey”) of King County this past January found that there [...]

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Teens Beat Homeless – Video CBS News

Posted in homeless, homelessness, misconceptions, tagged , , on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4463024n
CBS News ran this clip about the epidemic of homeless beatings throughout the country that is exascerbated by YouTube vidoes such as “Bum Fights” and “Bum Hunters”.
This kind of degradation is awful and a sad sign of how we have turned a blind eye to the de-humanization of the chronically homeless.
Please note: some of this imagery [...]

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