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AND THE BEAT GOES ON While watching the results of the primary election campaigns last week, I got to thinking. All that money, billions of dollars, going down the drain, filling the pockets of rich bandwagon politicians while the poor, the hungry and the homeless suffer and go without the basic needs of life.
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Assembly Speaker [Karen Bass], the co-chair of [Barack Obama]'s California campaign and former community organizer, has risen as the first Black woman in the nation to become an Assembly Speaker. She said, "Community organizers have been in the forefront of every historical movement that has helped our country move forward. And, in our community particularly, organizing has been the cornerstone of our efforts to break down barriers of discrimination and oppressioa" Bass came from the tradition that saw community organizing as an honorable service and it has taken her to the highest reaches of state government. "We understand that change takes place from the bottom up and that those who are most affected by an issue are the ones who should determine what the solution should be," she comm...
...When the community needs to connect with its public officials or seeks empo... prohibit people from obtaining a quality of life that speaks to dignity, respect and equality.". As... make sure that they can take care of the basic needs of life, and enjoy the American Dream, Barac...
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Spokane has held its own compared with peer metropolitan areas when it comes to criteria that measure such things as business growth, education, prosperity, quality of life, and basic needs, a new report issued by Greater Spokane Incorporated shows. Under the quality of life heading, the Spokane area's composite index for cost of living was 93.8 in the third quarter of 2009, compared with a 101.1 average for comparable metros (a lower number means lower cost).
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While watching the results of the primary election campaigns last week, I got to thinking. All that money, billions of dollars, going down the drain, filling the pockets of rich bandwagon politicians while the poor, the hungry and the homeless suffer and go without the basic needs of life. I got to thinking. What if someday a candidate vying for the chance to be president of the United States took all those millions from government subsidies and power-eager gravy-seekers and invested it in America. I mean AMERICA -- the poor, the hungry and the homeless.
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Pleasure," [Epicurus] wrote, "is the beginning and the goal of a happy life. We recognize pleasure as the first and natural good. Starting from pleasure, we accept or reject. "Epicurus did not believe in any kind of afterlife, and so he took such enormous pleasure in the most basic things," [Stephanie Mills] says. "He knew how to drink deeply of friendships, how to enjoy the satisfaction of meeting life's basic needs." To Mills, Epicurus is about "the allure of shifting one's life away from a focus of acquisition and toward a focus of appreciation." About learning that our lives are embedded in nature, and not in "the commodity spectacle."
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Last weekend found Jon Blair Hunter in downtown Baltimore, and like any other major American city, the streets were choked by throngs of homeless people, adrift in a human sea of nomadism and uncertainty about meeting life's basic needs from one day to the next. Blair paused to take in the scene and what it meant.
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LANSING, Mich., Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Increasingly, older adults, through no fault of their own, are unable to meet life's most basic needs. Unemployment, decreases in investment income and disappearing pensions have left many retirees quietly struggling to make ends meet. AARP estimates that unemployment for people 55 and older has increased over 300% in the last decade. Wayne State University reports 37% of people over 65 in Michigan don't have enough income to pay for basics like food, housing, transportation and their medical needs. The situation is worse in the City of Detroit, where 60% of retirees are at risk. Perhaps an older adult you know -- a neighbor, friend or even a parent -- is choosing between a meal or their medication? Older adults are used to provid...
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The United Way in Waukesha County is gathering momentum for a new initiative, started this month, to challenge the perception that poverty doesn't exist in the state's wealthiest counties. The agency's latest community impact initiative - Financial Stability - will shed light on a growing problem in Waukesha County: the inability of many local residents to meet their basic life needs, said John Schiraj, the agency's director of impact strategies and results.
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Continually polling a sample representing 95% of the Earth's adult population, the Gallup World Poll will pose the same core questions to residents of more than 130 countries repeatedly over time. Areas of inquiry are divided into 16 categories, resulting in indexes of "the world path:" * National Leadership (confidence in key institutions) * Law and Order (security) * Food and Shelter (basic needs) * Work (personal engagement) * Economics (standard of living) * Health (freedom from infirmary) * Well-Being (quality of life) * Engaged Citizens (satisfaction) * Environment (air and water quality) * Youth Development (educational system) * Community Quality of Life (communal concerns) * Religiosity (importance of religion) * Entrepreneurship (desire and ability for self-employment) * Corr...
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A costume contest, music and food will be featured at Hollyweird at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Creative Arts Building at the Mid-South Fairgrounds. Hollyweird will be the finale party for A Place at the Table (APATT), a series of fund-raising parties created by Friends for Life, which provides critical services, basic needs and outreach programs for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
