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illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
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(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:11 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.60022.jpg
(Michael Brands for The New York Times)
Connie McNab, center, of San Antonio, along with her dogs and her son, Easton, left, prepared to board a private jet Tuesday at the Aspen airport.
August 6, 2006
[www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=087d5fe8cf91956b&ex=1155009600|My Other Vehicle Is a Gulfstream]
By GUY TREBAY
Aspen, Colo.
...it becomes clear that the very rich are indeed very different from the rest of us.
...two simple words, almost magical to those who partake: flying private.
Just two decades ago, private aviation was exclusively the province of a global super- elite. ...jet-sharing plans that are the deep-pocketed equivalents of a MetroCard.
“When I was young it was quite rare,” said a society decorator in his early 50’s. “Maybe you knew one older gentleman with a great deal of money who had his own jet.”
...
...“In North America, I only fly privately,” he explained. “For me what’s important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out.”
...
“We’re always operating at the edge of full capacity,” said Chad Farischon, the general manager of Trajen FBO Network...so many aircraft vie for parking spots at Aspen airport that the overrun has to be shunted to nearby Rifle or Vail. “Jan. 2 this year, we had 150 aircraft that didn’t get in,” Mr. Farischon said...
As much as 80 percent of private air travel is now undertaken for leisure rather than business...
...Even the dreaded check-in procedure amounts to little more than identifying one’s pilot from among the various uniformed personnel slouched in overstuffed chairs.
“No one checks anything,” remarked Richard Edwards...
...among a certain segment of locals, the sense of entitlement to private air travel includes an expectation that interiors will be appointed with burled walnut fittings and seats of calf leather; that the in-flight entertainment will consist of a recent movie shown on a flat-screen TV...
...a note from the butler of one Blue Star client, whose on-board meal requirements were detailed to an extent (Grey Goose vodka frozen two hours before flight; ice cubes made with Fiji water; filet mignon of precise cut and dimension; and Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the kids)...
...buyers purchase, say, a 16th of a Hawker 400XP for about $400,000, or the same fraction of a Gulfstream 550 for roughly five times that amount, and then negotiate, much as time-share holders in a condominium might, for use of the plane. Then as now, fractional-share owners tended to be either large corporations or the ultrarich.
But as a certain group of Americans became richer and air travel became generally unpleasant, ...” people who are merely, rather than obscenely, rich...
...not much different from buying a Starbucks card.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/06/fashion/jets.190.3.jpg
Michael and Debbie Feiner, on a Flight Options plane, ready to leave the Aspen airport for Denver.
“You call up and say you want to fly from X place to X place,” explained Mr. Hubbard of the National Business Aviation Association. “They provide the equipment, swipe your card,” and the hours disappear until one fills the card up again. For $299,000...
“The sweet spot in private air travel is the entrepreneur,” said Ken Austin, the Marquis Jet senior vice president for marketing. “There is a generation of younger people in their 30’s and 40’s who have a high disposable income, and they use it.” Mr. Austin refers to these people as “the disposers.”
...“If you ever tried getting to Nantucket flying commercial, you know the stress alone could take years off your life,” Mr. Austin said....
“You do things that are lifestyle,” explained Mr. Antokal, a passionate Boston Red Sox fan who flew to New York from Boston for a playoff game ...For seven hours in New York, he spent close to $40,000. “Like the MasterCard commercial says, it’s priceless,” he said.
...Mr. Beson, the product of what he called a lower-middle-income background in a Midwestern farming town, occasionally wonders, he conceded, whether he has succumbed to the “lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 07:25 AM
Phenomenon
Degradation Inc.
By AIMEE MOLLOY
Published: August 6, 2006
(at most $10 per stunt). In one recurring segment called “Bum Hunter,” a young man in safari clothes sneaks up on sleeping homeless people. He binds and gags them, then “marks” them by writing a number on their foreheads.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, calling the films “degrading” and “sickening,” began a campaign against “Bumfights” soon after its debut. The coalition approached retailers and asked them to “stop selling hate.”
Myra Mendible, a professor of cultural studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, says the films reflect a trend. “Reality television has created an audience that is not only desensitized to images of human suffering but also has acquired an appetite for them.” McPherson, who is unapologetic, says “Bumfights” was “fresh and new” and simply filled the demand for more shocking material.
The homeless coalition says it fears that the films have contributed to teenage violence against the homeless, especially because viewers are encouraged to submit “ruckus” footage of their own. According to law-enforcement officials, a number of young people have videotaped themselves attacking homeless people, including four teenagers in Melbourne, Australia, who killed a man by setting fire to his tent; five in Alberta, Canada, who assaulted a homeless man with bottles and a club, then urinated on his face; and four young men near Cleveland, who crept up on homeless people and shocked them with a stun gun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/magazine/06wwln_phenomenon.html
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:27 AM
wrapped up pretty, glossy and done with speed.
Sorry folks but I pretty much despise wealthy people. What their lives manifest, if looked at in detail, is wholesale slaughter through their corpulent existence as they colonize other worlds and mostly see it as their divine right or worse simply don't see it or care.
I think I will steal this piece and put it up in GD this evening with an intro.
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
James_Balding
08-06-2006, 10:12 AM
What we have here is failure to communicate. Some people are only alive because it is against the law to kill them.
After observing these people in operation for a lifetime, I do hope I'm communicating my feelings toward them accurately. I would not want to be misunderstood. But it is so socially unacceptable to discuss class issues among the Liberal communities. Wouldn't want to put any distressful thoughts in their beautiful minds. Am I being anti-intellectual or is it rather a small sliver of my contempt for the arrogant showing through?
As for the "Bum Hunters", sometimes a hunter will cross paths with a "real" predator. Yes, sometimes even a somewhat big fish gets eaten by really big fish. Big fish eat little fish, that's their world, they choose it. Everybody gets what they want in this world. And the world can be quite brutal.
Do you have any Grey Poupon?
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
anaxarchos
08-06-2006, 10:16 AM
...talking about an Airstream.
http://www.airstream.net/images/fall.jpg
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
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Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
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Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
illiteratepresident
08-06-2006, 10:44 AM
[link:www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/us/20060402_HOMELESS_AUDIOSS.html|(Audio)Invisible Lives: Tactics of Discretion]
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/02/us/car.large.jpg
Richard Pyne, his daughter, Kristinlyn, and wife, Suzanne, moved into a shelter after living in their car.
April 2, 2006
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html?ex=1301630400&en=f28fb7d9b1206dbf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home]
By IAN URBINA
...The number of "mobile homeless," as they are often called, tends to climb whenever the cost of housing outpaces wages, Dr. Hopper said. Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars...up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.
...
Though the average duration of homelessness is four months, it tends to be shorter for the mobile homeless, experts say...Parking lots of big-box retailers are a popular choice. If free, hospital parking lots are also an option. Guards often take pity when told that you are waiting to visit a sick spouse, many say.
Finding a place to shower can take ingenuity...
Like several others interviewed, Mr. Chaney said that when he lost his trucking business after Hurricane Katrina and was evicted from his home, he was lucky enough to have already paid for a yearlong gym membership.
"That was probably the most important thing I had for keeping up appearances," said Mr. Chaney, who moved to Pennsylvania to be near his son, who was in college there.
...
"It might seem crazy, but the stakes are pretty high in the suburbs when it comes to staying invisible because it's supposed to be sanitized out here," said Mr. Alford, who works occasionally as a Web developer. "People call 911 in the city to report seeing a homeless person, and the cops laugh. Out here, the cops are out the door in no time when that call comes in."...
For some, secrecy can be an obstacle to needed services...Richard Pyne... did not seek help because he feared losing custody of his 17-year-old daughter... "You have no idea how exhausting it gets to survive like this."
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
NavenDansk
08-06-2006, 10:51 AM
I had read about homeless attacks but did not know that reality TV was encouraging them. I think that it was sponsored by the PTBs to degrade our whole society not just the homeless.
Someone wrote that under slavery in the US, there were very violent penalties for blacks who were caught learning to read including cutting off their thumbs and someone wrote that a black teacher was frustrated because many of his students were brought up to believe that reading is "a white thing." Need to talk about the right-wing think tanks and social engineering.
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
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Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
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Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
chlamor
08-06-2006, 08:07 PM
A Word From Our Chairman James Hatt
http://us.inmagine.com/168nwm/stockdisc/sd104/182724sdc.jpg
Successitudes™ began with my life-long passion for acquiring stuff- money, cars, fine cigars like this one I'm holding, chicks (of course). I learned long ago that if you want a piece of the action, you gotta strap on a pair of brass ones. Now, some inspirational merchandisers talk a good game about positive mental attitude. They'd have you festoon your office with posters telling you how life is like a golf course and paperweights telling you what T-E-A-M stands for. If that type of candy-ass uplift makes you feel better about your dead-end middle-management job, fine. But just remember- high-net-worth individuals like myself find chunks of suckers like you in our stools every morning. And that, asshole, is why you should write for our catalog today. P.O. Box 3788293, Chicago, IL 60637.
Unlock the asshole from within starting with WordBastard™ cassettes. Corporate difference makers know that the key to extracting peak employee performance is a regime of random and terroristic intimidation. In this nine-tape WordBastard™ set, Dirk Polnschlaeger, Dean of Executive Intimidation Training, unlocks the secret to life-transforming viciousness. Each day, Dirk will guide you through a series of mental exercises that will teach you the 10 timeless principles of business contumely, the 7 styles of tactical truculence, 6 tips for the up-and-coming martinet, and the 4 qualities of an effective tyrant. The information-packed workbook will hone your skills, and your Personal Bastard Diary will chart your progress. More than a thousand colorful and humiliating commands, imprecations and insults (almost 200 of which refer to the testicles). $89.95
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:07 AM
Living on the edge: Above poverty, many families still struggle
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/doc44d54b1a2db51113834327.txt
By AMANDA BENSEN
Sunday, August 06, 2006
...According to the government's definition of poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau... The official poverty threshold for a family of four is $19,806 in annual income, which translates to a full-time hourly wage of about $9.50 in a single-income family.
...in recent years, many economists have pointed out that the poverty rate is calculated with an overly simplistic formula that hasn't changed since the 1960s, and does not include the effect of factors like taxes, home ownership, health care and child care costs.
"There's almost no place in America where you can live on $20,000 as a family of four...you need at least $36,000 to pay basic expenses," said Amy Glasmeier, director of the Poverty in America project at Penn State University, which developed a city-specific Living Wage Calculator based on census data and economic statistics.
The more complex reality, she said, is that a large swath of the population is barely getting by, making too much to qualify for public assistance but not enough to cover all their expenses. They may not have not crossed the threshold into poverty, but they live on its doorstep. In Michelle's words, "it's better to be poorer than poor or richer than rich" than stuck in the middle. For example, when Charles was briefly unemployed earlier this year, the Stewarts applied for food stamps. But for a family of four, the maximum gross monthly income that qualifies for assistance is currently $2097. They were $12 over the limit even though he had not worked for two weeks.
"I can't tell you how many people say things to me like, 'People ought to be able to get by on that kind of money,' but they don't do the math!" Glasmeier said. "A lot of people don't do the math because it's too scary. They don't want to know how close they are to the edge."
..."My husband makes decent money, and we're still not making it," Michelle said. "So I don't know how any family could survive on minimum wage. The cost of living here is just so high."
...
"Lower middle income workers, which is what I would call anyone making under $50,000 a year, are feeling really significant constraints based on changing national economic circumstances," Glasmeier said...
...
"In some cases and in some places, these are families who find themselves at the end of the month with insufficient money, being forced to make choices between making their payments and buying food," she said. "It's far more dire, and far more precarious, than the American public would ever care to believe."
No net to fall into Glasmeier describes the growing gap between America's rich and poor in terms of income brackets, comparing the lowest-earning 20 percent to the highest-earning 20 percent of the population. Between 1979 and 2003, bottom-bracket incomes rose 14 percent, or about $17,000. In the same time period, the incomes of the highest earners rose 200 percent, or about $625,000.
...
"When you're earning like $9 an hour and subtracting child care and gas costs, it almost isn't worth it," she said.
... James, who has some college education and is a certified computer technician, hopes he can to get a better-paying job there, so Christina can afford to stay home with the kids. "I'd like to be able to provide them with everything they need, so they never have to worry," he said.
The Stewarts are less optimistic, although they haven't given up. They doubt they will ever be able to save for retirement or send their kids to college.
... "I guess all I can really leave them is the hope that ...That they'll make it big."
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:41 AM
USA>Economy
from the August 03, 2006 edition
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
...Henry Paulson,...Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list - as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges...
...average worker productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the nation's economic elites have prospered.
"Amid this country's strong economic expansion, many Americans simply aren't feeling the benefits," Paulson said ... "Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising healthcare costs, among others."
...
"There's nothing in this problem that suggests a quick fix," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Chief Economist on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington...
A major challenge for the Bush administration ... a widespread perception - one born out by other statistics - is that workers aren't commensurately better off.
The other three issues Paulson highlighted as long-term challenges were energy policy, maintaining global trade and investment, and - his first priority - reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p03s03-usec.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:45 AM
"I really believe, after 15 years of working with homeless children, there is a culture of poverty that supersedes all other factors in education," said Sara Garfield, an education professor at California State University, Stanislaus. "Children in poverty could have poor nutrition; they have stress in their lives; they're dealing with constant moving. All of these things affect their education."
For a family of four to qualify for the federal government's free school lunch program, its annual income must be $26,000 or less. For a reduced-price lunch, income can be no higher than $37,000.
The percentage of San Joaquin County children qualifying for the program has hovered around 47 percent for nearly a decade. During the 2005-06 school year, it grew to 50.3 percent, ranging in individual districts from 12.9 percent in Tracy's Jefferson Elementary School District to 90.4 percent in the Holt Union Elementary School District.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060323/1001
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 05:49 AM
...are soaring incomes at the upper end of the scale good for the economy as a whole?
The answer, according to Goldman: yes, in some ways.
A very real benefit of the rich getting richer has been on interest rates, Goldman said. Because higher-income earners have the wherewithal to save more, they create demand for savings products, such as Treasury bonds. The increased demand for savings vehicles in recent years has helped prop up the prices of bonds, which in turn has held interest rates down, to everyone's benefit.
Another benefit: Goldman figured that the taxes that have been collected at higher rates padded Uncle Sam's wallet to the tune of about $50 billion last year. So even the government has been better able to weather increases in spending as a result.
"This could help explain why we've had fewer recessions in the past 20 years," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.
The huge concentration of income at the high end seems to have a calming effect on the $13 trillion U.S. economy.
...
Income equality is the answer to much of the conflicting economic data we've seen, such as the growing disconnect between consumer confidence statistics and broad macroeconomic data.
It's easy enough to perceive the glass as being half full when you are devoting only 15.6 percent of your income to necessities, which is what the top 20 percent of earners experience.
The bottom 20 percent of earners spend 38.6 percent of income on the stuff you can't do without -- rent, food and energy.
http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060710_dimart10.17f2488.html
38% my ass. Maybe the odd bird like me with $300 rent and free fuel. But that statistic is bullshit.
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 10:07 AM
WHY DOES CPS SYSTEMATICALLY REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE?
Since Clinton enacted the adoption and Safe Families act in 1997, this has lead to widespread corruption within the child Protective Services Agency and outlying neighboring agencies. By systematically removing children from predominantly poor families, C.P.S is able to secure foster care/ adoption status for these children with little or no parental encumbrance.
Thus C.P.S victimizes those families that have no means available, to properly investigate C.P.S corrupt activities directed at their family.
Since Federal and state matching funds generate the budget for C.P.S, the single means utilized to elevate the budget is to increase foster care and adoption caseloads.
Bonus incentives for adoptions are currently $8,000 per child. $4,000 is given to the foster parents and another $4,000 is placed in a general fund, to reward workers for completing their job duties. Workers in this county, state that they do not personally financially benefit from this fund. Thus it leads us to believe, that other neighboring agencies are benefiting form this fund, in return for deceptive practices that support C.P.S decisions.
BABY TRAFFICKING
False Allegations of drug abuse have been logged against mothers and their newborn infants as a means to place these infants into protective custody. The hospital staff has allowed C.P.S to remove infants (a hospital violation) prior to verification of blood and urine drug screen tests. C.P.S is mandated to secure verification of drug allegations via blood and urine results, prior to removing the newborn infant from the hospital. All cases known to us resulted negative for the mother and the newborn, but these infants were never returned, and were adopted outside of kinship.
In the past year, the FBI has arrested and imprisoned C.P.S workers who were actively involved in baby trafficking for profit. These C.P.S workers knowingly abducted infants from the hospital where they in turn networked them into legal adoption agencies. Augustus Fennerty, FBI director for Crimes against Children (Washington D.C) can verify this information. (202) 324-3000
CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY
Southern California FBI District has videotape recorded CPS workers placing foster care children onto planes via LAX, destination Europe for child sex trade industry. This can be verified through Ted Gunderson, (retired) FBI Director Southern California (310) 477-6565.
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION IN FOSTER CARE
For the families in relation to our group in San BernardinoCounty, it has come to our attention while comparing similarities, that approximately half the children in foster care have been molested.
These children were not sexually abused by their parents, but by the foster fathers or others in the foster home. It was also noted that these foster homes are still operating in the same capacity prior to complaints, without any investigation into these allegations. C.P.S officials were made aware of these accusations by the children, but failed to follow through with a criminal investigation.
In conclusion, Child Protective Service is nothing more than an “oasis’’ for child molesters, to make a profit, while at the same time committing a crime, only to be protected by a malignant system that delivers a never ending supply of victims...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2296
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:02 PM
when it comes to helping the poor get ahead, nearly all of our public policy today is focused on how to boost their income. From the minimum wage to job-training programs to the earned-income-tax-credit, there are dozens of policies now in place that strive to help lower income families earn more money every year.
But nearly no attention is given to how that money is actually spent. That's a big mistake, because it turns out that every year the poor often pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in inflated prices for everyday goods and services.
The statistics are staggering. About 4.2 million lower-income homeowners paid higher than average prices for their mortgages in 2004. About 4.5 million lower-income households paid higher than average rates for auto loans. And countless more paid higher prices for other necessities like basic financial services, food and insurance than did their wealthier neighbors.
Those higher prices add up to the difference between a poor family that is just making ends meet and one that is able to tuck away the critical savings needed to get ahead.
Take a poor household, for instance, that lives in Detroit today, rents its home, rides the bus to and from work, and earns the federal minimum wage -- $10,712 a year. Costs are minimal, except for the fact that most households that earn so little do not have a bank account, instead relying on high-priced check-cashing businesses. And there's the problem, because using that service quickly adds up to a substantial amount of money for poor households.
One of the biggest check-cashing chains in Detroit, for instance, slices between 2% and 16% off each check in fees, depending on who writes the check. Before taxes, that's anywhere from about $200 to $1,700 every year that this family would have to pay just for cashing checks.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/OPINION02/608070305/1070
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
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The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:08 PM
NYPD Targets Black, Hispanic And Poor Neighborhoods For Arrests For Smoking Marijuana In Public
Arrests for smoking marijuana in public have shifted from occurring mostly in rich, central areas of New York City (NYC) in the early 1990's, to occurring mostly in poor, black or Hispanic areas of the city in 2003. A study published today in the open access journal Harm Reduction Journal reveals that arrests for smoking marijuana in public now occur mostly in the black, Hispanic or poor areas of New York City, especially in the Hispanic areas of the Bronx, the black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn and in Queens.
The authors conclude that these arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic communities might be exacerbating race relations in NYC, say the authors. The authors suggest that the NYPD should issue Desk Appearance tickets, court summons or simply ask smokers to stop smoking and discard their drugs, instead of arresting individuals smoking marijuana in public.
...
The results of Golub et al.'s study reveal that arrests for smoking marijuana in public shifted geographically between 1992 and 2003. In 1992, such arrests were scattered broadly throughout the city, with a slight concentration in Greenwich Village, Soho and Washington Heights in Manhattan. From 1996 onwards, however, most of the arrests recorded occurred in poor, black or Hispanic areas of NYC. In 2003, the most arrests occurred mainly in two poor Hispanic sections of the Bronx (Highbridge, Concourse Village and University Heights, Fordham, Mt. Hope), two poor black and Hispanic sections of Brooklyn (Brownsville, Ocean City and East New York, Starrett City), a wealthier black section of Brooklyn (East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut), a wealthier black section of Queens (Jamaica, St. Albans, Hollis), and two very mixed wealthier communities in Queens (Astoria, Long Island City) and Staten Island (Stapleton, Port Richmond). In these areas 1,000 arrests or more were recorded in 2003. In contrast, none of the Manhattan precincts had 1,000 or more arrests recorded that year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48814
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-07-2006, 09:15 PM
THE Candy brothers have become synonymous with creating products to please the uber-rich.
*
Nick, 33, was working in advertising when he and Christian, 32, a former commodity trader, decided to go into business together after spotting a gap in the market for designing luxury play pads for high-rollers. They have since designed properties in cities including Athens, Los Angeles and Moscow and have worked for celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and Gwyneth Paltrow.
They are extending their franchise into luxury jets, yachts, hotels and spas. The brothers have set up Candy & Candy Aviation, working with Bombardier to supply design and jet services for the ultra-wealthy. The new venture aims to transfer the design skills used on luxury apartments to create bespoke luxury aboard private jets for billionaire businessmen and royalty.
One source said: “This will be pretty one-off stuff. They are looking at installing spas that work at 40,000ft.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2302646,00.html
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
illiteratepresident
08-08-2006, 06:57 AM
Jewish Movement Calls on President Bush and Congress to Make Fighting Poverty a Priority
New York, December 19, 2003 - In response to Thursday's release of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America's cities, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The report released Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors highlighting the continuing problems of hunger and homelessness in America's cities is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by America's poor. The growing numbers of men, women and children facing hunger and homelessness on a daily basis reinforces the overwhelming need for Congress and the Administration to solve these systemic problems.
According to the report, in the last year, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Food insecurity and lack of shelter hit families with children particularly hard, with requests for food assistance by families with children increasing by 18 percent over the last year. Yet we know that 15 percent of requests for emergency food assistance for families went unmet. Congress and the Administration cannot afford to ignore the problems of hunger and homelessness that plague the residents of our cities and our entire nation and must commit the resources necessary to assist those in dire need.
Addressing hunger and homelessness requires us to address its root causes: unemployment, low-paying jobs and high housing costs. We must raise the current low minimum wage to a level that reflects the reality of our economy. We must create more affordable housing. We must improve and expand child nutrition programs so that no eligible child in America will be hungry. We must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, allowing Americans to move out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. And we must ensure that the Child Care and Development Block Grant provides funds to all the families currently receiving childcare subsidies. Only a comprehensive plan that addresses all of these issues will eliminate hunger and homelessness in America.
http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=909&pge_prg_id=7037
Baby Steps...
WIC to Add Fruits & Veggies
Last Update: 8/8/2006 6:25:44 AM
The federal program that helps feed women, infants and children may soon be adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their approved list.
For decades WIC, or Woman, Infants and Children program has helped low-income families get their nutritional needs- providing money for baby formula and for staple foods like milk, cheese, eggs and cereal for moms and kids. But for decades there have been few changes to the food list.
Now it looks like some changes will be made in an effort to curb the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The amount of juice will be reduced to make room for fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods.
Dr. Helen Jackson of the Duval County Health Department's Community Nutrition Services said this is a welcome and much-anticipated change. "This is a positive change in our community for the health of our children," she said.
http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E1E5B5DD-96A0-4ACC-BB82-D02E6AAB6A90
Media Beat
Going Hungry: News That Really Matters
By Norman Solomon
Two days after many TV networks aired every moment of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony, several members of Congress teamed up with researchers and activists for a dramatic forum about "economic human rights." The independent hearing focused on matters of profound importance -- and the big news media ignored it.
The gathering took place on Capitol Hill, right under the noses of the Washington press corps. And the media establishment stayed away in droves. Not a single TV camera was there. In fact, hardly any journalists showed up.
"Thirty million Americans are hungry," notes the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, which helped to organize last Wednesday's forum. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million are homeless. "More than 40 million Americans have no health insurance. And the country has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries."
The institute emphasizes that "hunger is not an accident, in the U.S. or anywhere else. There is no scarcity of food in the world. Certainly there's no shortage here in America." Yet, "the number of hungry people in America has increased by half since 1985."
While we keep being told that the nation's economy is robust, inequities continue to widen. "Sure, there are more millionaires than ever in the U.S.," says Food First. "But for every new millionaire, there are countless new hungry people for whom $100 or $200 a month in food stamps is the only safeguard against malnutrition, even starvation."
So, why don't we hear more about hunger in the United States? A key factor is the media industry's fixation on demographics. "Because the mass media is aimed at the people with the highest disposable income, we see pictures of hunger overseas, but not our own," Food First observes. "Perhaps that's a reason why the growth of the Hunger Class has been ignored politically."
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980924.html
Food or doctor? 'Food is priority' for working poor
By R. W. Dellinger
8/8/2006
The Tidings
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Last year, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research estimated there were 957,000 adults in Los Angeles County who experienced "food insecurity" annually, including 287,000 who go hungry.
...
Released on National Hunger Awareness Day, "Hunger in Los Angeles County 2006" documents the growing tragedy of domestic hunger in the nation's so-called "golden" state."...
The study points out that during the past four years, 62 percent of food pantries and 69 percent of soup kitchens saw their number of clients climb. Adults, 18 to 64, were by far the main group looking for emergency food assistance (57 percent). But 28 percent were children and 15 percent senior citizens.
Arguably the most startling statistic, however, concerned the employment status of those who sought assistance. Almost a third (31 percent) of the working-age adults were employed, with most working full time.
...
Running out of food
Two weeks ago, the family of six, including four children, ages six to 12, simply ran out of food. What saved them was a Ralph's gift certificate for $100 and a couple bags of groceries from the food pantry at St. Lawrence.
This summer has been particularly tough. Mother Maria is out of work as a teacher's aide, but still in the process of getting unemployment benefits. And since the kids aren't going to school, they're not receiving reduced-priced lunches.
Father Jose, a 35-year-old picture-framer, has only gotten one raise in five years, bringing his hourly wage up to $8 an hour. With overtime, his take-home pay ranges from $280 to $400 a week. That only leaves the family with $600 every month after paying $1,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=20820
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
Devils Advocate NZ
08-08-2006, 07:10 AM
practically get a rectal exam, but all terrorists need to do is buy a share in a gulfstream, load it up with explosives and fly it into another building.
Way to go Fatherland... er I mean Homeland Security.
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
illiteratepresident
10-17-2006, 11:51 AM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.xlarge1.jpg
A movie theater is part of Lufthansa’s design for a private Boeing 787.
This is not about the presumed titans of the private jet universe like the mighty Gulfstream G5’s or Global Expresses, whose occupants can leap continents and oceans at high speed and in plush comfort, without all the inconveniences of commercial airports, airline schedules and, well, strangers.
This is about big, long-haul airliners that are converted to private jets and can carry not only pampered passengers and their entourages, but also, in some cases, their Rolls Royces and racehorses. These are specially equipped, privately owned jumbo jets — the kind that normally carry as many 300 to 400 passengers — but reconfigured with interiors designed for the enjoyment of, at most, a couple of dozen.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.large2.jpg
“There are around 39 Boeing 747’s with interiors configured for V.I.P. use in the world, and many 757’s and 767’s, an MD-11, and two 777’s,” said Aaga Duenhaupt, a manager for Lufthansa Technik, based in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa that designs and builds the interiors for new and used (or “pre-owned,” as they like to say in both the luxury car and luxury jet markets) airliners for individual or corporate use.
Even though the first deliveries of the 787 are not expected until 2008, industry experts say that marketing interior design plans now makes sense because there is always great interest in the next big thing at the highest end of the luxury private jet market. Ordering now ensures getting into the front of the line for a private 787, fully loaded, they say.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/17/business/17jets.1903.jpg
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a list price of at least $150 million. The first planes are expected to arrive in 2008.
Airliner-size jets are also used by individual business people. Among them is Willie Gary, who grew up in a family of migrant workers in Florida but is now a prominent liability lawyer. Weary of wasting valuable time away from his family in commercial airports and eager to have the space to conduct business in the air, Mr. Gary bought a Boeing 737 several years ago and had it outfitted as a private jet. He also owns a 16-seat Gulfstream G2 that he refers to as his “second plane.”
Mr. Gary planned to invest in a bigger private 757, but now he says he is ready to kick the tires of the 787 Dreamliner, once the plane is on the market.
“On the 737, we can take depositions,” Mr. Gary said. “We have meetings and settlement conferences. It gives me the luxury of getting in and getting out and moving on. I’ve touched down in as many as five states in a day,” he said. “But I’m not going to keep the 737 forever. I’m a goal setter, and I’m always looking for something new.”
...
Luthnansa Technik is now working on preliminary designs for the much-delayed Airbus A380, which will be the biggest plane in the sky once it is available.
In addition to its size, which will allow for even more luxury, the A380 has a feature that may appeal to the most status-conscious of owners, who may travel with underlings. That feature harks back to the days of ocean liners, where social classes were physically segregated.
“The A380 will offer a chance to separate the senior V.I.P.’s from the junior V.I.P.’s because you have two decks, and they can be kept apart,” Mr. Duenhaupt said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/business/17megajets.html
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
Kailassa
10-17-2006, 05:47 PM
People making money from the private flying industry will see a financial benefit each time a public airliner is threatened or hijacked.
The tedious airport waits, searchesand annoyances all make their stock more valuable.
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
illiteratepresident
10-23-2006, 01:03 PM
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
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