Page 32 - The Poor News Today

Presidency, at least tonight. clown car rolls on to new hampshire, south carolina, florida and beyond. with the iowa caucus soon to be over, perhaps we can remember the state for what it actually is. a swing state with a surgings hispanic population, high-tech and research community, a state barack obama won in 2008 by a nine-point margin. so, then to the victor tonight, a reminder, after all the rhetoric about magnets and illegals, after the disavowels of science and climate change, after the s...

A front-runner in the race for presidency, at least tonight. clown car rolls on to new hampshire, south carolina, florida and beyond. with the iowa caucus soon to be over, perhaps we can remember the state for what it actually is. a swing state with a surgings hispanic population, high-tech and research community, a state barack obama won in 2008 by a nine-point margin. so, then to the victor tonight, a reminder, after all the rhetoric about magnets and illegals, after the disavowels of science ...

its a dangerous, tumultuous time in the roman empire. nowhere more so than in the province of judea on the far edge of the mediterranean. its capital, the holy city of jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to th...

jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, hes political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but ...

What the base of the gop want to hear? >> i dont know if its what they want. but they do respond so this sort of demonization of the poor. you can only take him at what he says. you cant say, what he meant was -- i can only analyze what the man says. and hes saying that these very poor kids dont have anyone around them who works. that is not true. >> hold one minute. you wrote accurately, 3 out of 4 people living below the poverty line have a job. this is in your column. >> absolutely. >> i quot...

The half empty schools. >> there is not half empty schools. >> he says charters favor rich kids but newark public schools spend almost $400,000 per classroom and the charters get less. >> not that much less. according -- >> but they get less. it is hardly the rich versus the poor. >> happy for them. >> then let them into your schools. >> dont want them in our schools. why should you be -- >> you are not happy for them then? >> does fox and cnn are they in the same building? i dont think so. >> b...

The half empty schools. >> there is not half empty schools. >> he says charters favor rich kids but newark public schools spend almost $400,000 per classroom and the charters get less. >> not that much less. according -- >> but they get less. it is hardly the rich versus the poor. >> happy for them. >> then let them into your schools. >> dont want them in our schools. why should you be -- >> you are not happy for them then? >> does fox and cnn are they in the same building? i dont think so. >> b...

>> no, theres not half empty schools. >> he says charters favor rich kids. >> newark public schools spend 100,000 per classroom. the charters get less. >> not that much less. >> they get less. its hardly the rich verses the poor. >> happy for them. >> let them in your schools. >> they dont want to be in our schools. >> you are not happy for them then. >> is fox and cnn in the same building? i dont think so. >> cnn and fox cant banish the competition. competition is good. competition is why we ha...

The half empty schools. >> there is not half empty schools. >> he says charters favor rich kids but newark public schools spend almost $400,000 per classroom and the charters get less. >> not that much less. according -- >> but they get less. it is hardly the rich versus the poor. >> happy for them. >> then let them into your schools. >> dont want them in our schools. why should you be -- >> you are not happy for them then? >> does fox and cnn are they in the same building? i dont think so. >> b...

Taxes stopped equalizing the benefits of living in our american economy and instead started shoveling all the benefits up to the people who already have the most money. the private sector followed suit, frankly. executive pay went through the roof. workers pay not so much. again, this is not something that has been happening gradually over the life span of america as a country. this is something thats been happening gradually over the life span of me. this is something that has just happened in ...