Salvation Army claims record numbers of families in need, battles ‘homophia’ allegations
Officials with the Salvation Army say they’re seeing a record number of families asking for help this holiday season. Nearly 18,000 families have registered for Christmas assistance in the last month. That number More...
Collapsing the System on Purpose: The Cloward Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is More...
Communists explain Easter to us all
Who are these people: The People’s World / Mundo Popular is a national, grassroots newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., the PW reports on and analyzes More...
Frances Fox Piven Quotes
Frances Fox Piven is a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. In 1983 she co-founded Human SERVE (Service Employees Registration and Voter Education), an More...
US poverty rate highest since 1994
The U.S. poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its More...
India: A village faces a nine-year-long power failure!
Can you imagine a power outage for nine long years? That’s exactly what this village in Pilibhit district has had to endure after its main transformer developed a snag in 2001. Pilibhit is the parliamentary More...
Dr. Weiss’s Secrets & Warnings about the economy — psst: there’s a lot of debt
Dr. Martin Weiss published these 11 staggering facts that every American needs to know — and that every investor won’t be able to succeed without … 11 startling facts that Obama and Bernanke do NOT More...