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• The Held Harmless Phenomenon: The Often Neglected and Ignored Homeless

  By jewel1944 on February 7, 2016 • ( 20 )

  

  The often neglected and ignored homeless It is noted that the growth and development of a child from 0-12 is essential in their ability to use reason and logic in understanding how their environment impacts them and the part they… Read More ›

• H-1B: Outsourcing on America Soil

  By Sara on January 27, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  If you missed the New York Times’ expose about Disney, which detailed how its employees had to train their own H-1B visa replacements before being laid-off, don’t worry. You haven’t heard the last of companies’ misuse of worker visas.  Toys… Read More ›

• Grey Wisp

  By Ecantados on January 24, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  the pieces, scattered through history, millenniums ill-shaped, jagged edges, revolving, resolving alone, without meaning, unless brought together one piece dissolving into another, breaking apart mystery hidden within mystery, hooded by, grey tiny grey shapes emerging, merging into a, shape the… Read More ›

• 120 International Organizations Appeal for Lifting Siege on Syrian Communities

  By konigludwig on January 23, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  More than 120 humanitarian organizations and United Nations agencies issued a joint appeal today urging the world to raise their voices and call for an end to the Syria crisis and to the suffering endured by millions of civilians. The… Read More ›

• End of Ultralight-guided Migration for Whooping Cranes

  By jward199 on January 23, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Operation Migration has played a lead role in the reintroduction of endangered Whooping cranes into eastern North America since 2001. In the 1940s the species was reduced to just 15 birds. Using ultralight aircraft, Operation Migration pilots act as surrogate… Read More ›

• Walking in the Dawn

  By Ecantados on January 23, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

    as the dew wets the dust drips from the tall grass walking forward as I must to see a lake smooth as glass past the gaunt hangmans tree left over from times gone by looking away as far as… Read More ›

• Meet IL Governor Bruce Rauner — Poster Boy for War on Middle Class

  By jward199 on January 21, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  by Robert Creamer Rauner makes me long for Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s senate seat, or Quinn, one of the most incompetent governors in Illinois history. Hell, I’d take Ryan over Rauner, given the choice. Illinois politics suck more than… Read More ›

• Bayard Rustin Was Here

  By konigludwig on January 18, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Before Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man fighting for equality in a society steeped in institutionalized racism and homophobia. Despite orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington, and being personally embraced by King and… Read More ›

• Confessions of a rent-a-worker

  By Sara on January 15, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Temp agencies. They’re the bottom feeders lurking in the depths of our faltering economy. Why do we need staffing agencies–whose supposed purpose is to help people find work–when the real unemployment rate is over 10%? That’s 30 million people out… Read More ›

• ‘Largest-ever’ Gas Field in Mediterranean Discovered Off Egypt, Italian Energy Giant Eni Says

  By fada1 on January 13, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Eni says after full development, the discovery will be able to ensure satisfying Egypt’s natural gas demands ‘for decades.’ The Italian energy company Eni SpA announced Sunday it has discovered a “supergiant” natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as… Read More ›

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