Category Archives: poverty

Black Friday Boycott

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Dave Bradley

WE’RE PULLING THE PLUG ON  CORPORATE CONTROL THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, WESHUT DOWN THE SYSTEM // SYSTEM ERROR: CONNECTION TO CAPITALISM LOST This is a coordinated economic shutdown—a collective refusal to participate in a system that profits off our pain, exploits … Continue reading →

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Invisible Hand During The Holidays

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is a book seldom read in its entirety. Libertarians underwent multiple iterations of winnowing the more than five hundred fifty pages into something more closely matching their ideological viewpoint. Once, they serialized a conservative … Continue reading →

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Poverty By America

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Dave Bradley

Matthew Desmond interviewed on a Barnes and Noble video (55 minutes): Matthew Desmond has been making the interview rounds the past couple weeks as his new book “Poverty By America” debuts. While I have not had a chance to read … Continue reading →

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Food Banks Need Our Help In Iowa

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Dave Bradley

PBS story on food banks in the US (7:10) As we posted last week, the Johnson County CommUnity sent out an emergency letter stating that reserves were low and requesting donations. You can be certain that if the Iowa City … Continue reading →

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Party Of Death?

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Dave Bradley

Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare:    “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading →

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Progress Iowa On The State Of The State

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Dave Bradley

Once again the folks at Progress Iowa listen to Governor Branstad and find his words do not match reality. Three press releases from Progress Iowa’s Communication Director Monica Biddix shows how the Governor is out of step with Iowans. Three … Continue reading →

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Why we must listen to Pope Francis‏

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dave Bradley

The following is an email sent from the Bernie Sanders campaign: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance. Politics is, instead, an … Continue reading →

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Poverty Vultures

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Out of sight of the eyes of anything resembling reporters the poverty industries in the USA are cranking along in high gear. Most of these are protected from any harm by Republicans from the county courthouse through the state house … Continue reading →

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Why We Must Regulate Financial Firms

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Americans seem to love their rich folk. They look at them as superheroes that have somehow shook the bonds of terrestrial powers and made themselves above other humans. Thus we tend to think that those who have money are not … Continue reading →

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Humiliating The Poor

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Dave Bradley

This is now something we do in America. No more following the teachings of most religions and ethics. Poor people are to be treated as a pariah in America these days. Reasoning in America today says poor people are responsible … Continue reading →

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