Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

$21 a week

Oregon food stamp recipients only get $21/week for groceries. (Wow, and I thought I was being thrifty with an $84 grocery tab last week! And I used coupons!)

To bring awareness to this fact, the governor of Oregon is living off food stamps for a week. An interesting stunt. Perhaps Oregon's legislature will take heed?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Time fo' some news

Wiccans finally get approval to have pentacles on their gravestones. Dubya doesn't mind sending them to die in Iraq, but he does mind if they rest in peace under the [peaceful] religious symbol of their choice.

Infant mortality rates in the Southeast, especially the Mississippi Delta, are on the rise. Perhaps the MS state legislature could worry about the health & quality of life of Delta citizens instead of trying to ban abortion? Oh, and NOT cutting Medicaid and CHIP services?

Finally, Boris Yeltsin died. That man sure could cut a rug!