Foreclosure Victims "Want a Homeless Life"
By David Sirota
After their anti-tax zealotry left their city in the budgetary lurch, Colorado Springs Republicans have slashed their community's social services to the bone. We're talking big cuts to police, firefighters, park maintenance, public transportation - even turning off the city's streetlights (except, of course, in the wealthy areas!).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25467.htm
Couple Commits Suicide Over Debt
By 39 Online
Foreclosure and Unemployment Blamed for Spike in Suicides.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25476.htm
A perfect storm for unemployment in June
While there is plenty of talk about the economic recovery, there is barely a whisper about what is just a few weeks ahead. It's not any one thing. It's a combination of three (and possibly four) different events that will deliver devastating body-blows to the economy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/18/867517/-A-perfect-storm-for-unemployment-in-June
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Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
Bill Quigley, Truthout: "May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With millions of homeless living in our communities and millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together."
http://www.truthout.org/taking-back-homes-banks-exercising-human-right-housing59530
HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America's Public Housing
George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Obama administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation, called PETRA, to Congress that would result in the privatization of all public housing in America."
http://www.truthout.org/below-radar-hud-trying-privatize-and-mortgage-off-all-americas-public-housing59779
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After their anti-tax zealotry left their city in the budgetary lurch, Colorado Springs Republicans have slashed their community's social services to the bone. We're talking big cuts to police, firefighters, park maintenance, public transportation - even turning off the city's streetlights (except, of course, in the wealthy areas!).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25467.htm
Couple Commits Suicide Over Debt
By 39 Online
Foreclosure and Unemployment Blamed for Spike in Suicides.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25476.htm
A perfect storm for unemployment in June
While there is plenty of talk about the economic recovery, there is barely a whisper about what is just a few weeks ahead. It's not any one thing. It's a combination of three (and possibly four) different events that will deliver devastating body-blows to the economy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/18/867517/-A-perfect-storm-for-unemployment-in-June
From Information Clearing House
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Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
Bill Quigley, Truthout: "May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With millions of homeless living in our communities and millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together."
http://www.truthout.org/taking-back-homes-banks-exercising-human-right-housing59530
HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America's Public Housing
George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Obama administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation, called PETRA, to Congress that would result in the privatization of all public housing in America."
http://www.truthout.org/below-radar-hud-trying-privatize-and-mortgage-off-all-americas-public-housing59779
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rudkla - 18. Mai, 09:52
