Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich appeals to working Americans by slandering the poor. Gingrich recently denounced child labor laws as “truly stupid,” suggesting that schools should fire janitors and hire students under the age of 16 to clean the place. When critics said he would send America back to the age depicted by Dickens, Gingrich defended […]
Author Archives: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
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Suffer Unto the Young
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The jobs numbers were hailed as good news last week, with employers adding over 200,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticking down to 8.8 percent. Less attention was given to the downside of these numbers. Black unemployment remains about twice as great as the national unemployment average – and is going […]
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Assault on Unions is an Attack on Basic Civil Rights
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – It looks like “Cairo has come to Madison,” said conservative Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, as 50,000 citizens took over the state’s Capitol building. He got the spirit right, but the location wrong. In Madison, folks wearing Packers jerseys stand together with folks wearing Bears colors. Madison is this generation’s Selma, the epicenter for […]
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An Open Letter on Poverty to America’s Local, State and National, Leaders
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The US Census Bureau’s recent report on poverty in the United States is a clarion call to our nation and our elected leaders. We in the United States possess the greatest resources and wealth ever known to humankind. So, to have over 44 million people – 14 percent of our population – and 20 […]