Give Obama Credit for Jobs Turnaround
By any measure the last few months have not been a high point for the Obama administration. The rollout of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has been a disaster of epic proportions. The technical...
View ArticleA Homeless Girl’s Story Highlights Family Planning and Poverty
This week the New York Times landed in the news in a way the paper probably wishes it had not. A reporter teased a story she was working on, and another outlet promptly published a link to said story...
View ArticlePoor Kids Should Sweep Floors, Says GOP Scrooge
Apparently Rep. Jack Kingston has taken it upon himself to pick up where Mitt Romney left off in attempting to establish the GOP brand as officially synonymous with disdain for poor people. In a recent...
View ArticleDe Blasio Daughter Shares Story of Depression and Substance Abuse
The family of New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio has already begun to emerge as a model American family for the new millennium. There is their multiracial makeup, comprised of de Blasio, who is...
View ArticleHold On, Conservatives, Marriage Is No Poverty Cure-All
Though the candidates rarely discussed poverty during the 2012 presidential election season, it now seems to have replaced the so-called war on women as the topic neither party can stop talking about....
View ArticleThe Obamas and CVS on the Same Page About Quitting Smoking
Today one of the biggest national drugstore chains announced something that would once have been unthinkable: It will cease selling one of its most in-demand items, simply because the company believes...
View ArticleUpdate: Black Tea Partier Katrina Pierson Collected Unemployment Benefits
If you read my profile in The Root of African-American Tea Partier Katrina Pierson on Tuesday, you know that in her bid to unseat incumbent House Rules Committee Chair Pete Sessions in next week’s...
View ArticleSenate Aide: It’s ‘Impossible’ to Get Obama’s Black Nominees Past Senate...
On Wednesday the U.S. Senate voted 47-52 to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorney Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s Civil...
View ArticleYes, Rep. Issa, Cutting Rep. Cummings’ Mic Really Was Pretty ‘Sorry’
On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)—chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee—told Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)—the committee’s ranking minority member—that he’s sorry for...
View Article5 Ways the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Cases Affect Black Women
Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in what has been dubbed the Hobby Lobby case, a catch-all name for two separate cases—Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood Specialties...
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