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How McDonalds And VISA Team Up To Bilk Employees Of Already Scanty Pay

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In many locations, this form of payment is the only method available. Is there anything less honorable than preying on the working poor?

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The Devastating Spending Cuts That Were Too Much For House Republicans To Swallow

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House Republicans bailed on a bill that would have had devastating cuts to a variety of programs.

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This graph calls the entire economic recovery into question

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The economy is a lot worse than a glance at the unemployment rate suggests.

Charity Thomas’s insight:

So does that mean that only a little over half of the US population has a job?

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I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be ‘Nice’

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My daughter is kind and compassionate, but she will not smile unless either she is genuinely glad to see you or you’re telling her a joke that has a scatological punch line.

Charity Thomas’s insight:

My grandparents would always say to me: Stay Sweet. And while that sweetness has gotten me some things, I’m not sure they’re really the things I needed.

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Black on Black Shaming: A Response to Romany Malco Sympathizers

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Sometimes Black folks are so hard on Black folks.  To much attention and fanfare, actor Romany Malco published an article last week in Huff Post outlining his take on the Trayvon Martin case.

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The Worst of White Folks

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Way back in the day when Twitter was a bootleg reindeer name, David Rozier invented farting during Mass.

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The Art of Criticism in the Age of Interactive Technology: Critics, Participatory Culture, and the Avant-Garde | Gillespie | International Journal of Communication

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The Art of Criticism in the Age of Interactive Technology: Critics, Participatory Culture, and the Avant-Garde

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Rising Rent In The Income Inequality Capital Of The USA

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Inhabitants of the City That Never Sleeps may find themselves spending quite a few more evenings tossing and turning after reading a new report detailing the grim realities of soaring rents in a city plagued by income inequality.

Charity Thomas’s insight:

“This sustained growth appears impervious to reality. For example, using data gathered by the the U.S. Census Bureau, The New Yorker calculated that the income gap in Manhattan is comparable to that of countries like Sierra Leone and Namibia.”

Namibia!

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Mugabe Vows To Step Down If He Loses Zimbabwe Election

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Voting concluded Wednesday in most of Zimbabwe’s polling stations in elections in which Robert Mugabe, faced one of the biggest challenges to his 33-year grip on power.

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Iyanla Vanzant Gives It To Us Straight: Black Women Are Out Of Order!

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The OWN life coach says instead of chasing after no-good men, we should be forming bonds with our sisters. Do you agree?

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