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AltaMed Opens First-of-its-Kind Health Care Center in the Nation

AltaMed Opens First-of-its-Kind Health Care Center in the Nation
No Related Stories at this time! LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — AltaMed Health Services along with community and political leaders, celebrated today the grand opening of the Family Health and Wellness Center located in the heart of El Monte.

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A crestfallen Steelers Nation returns to its normal routine

A crestfallen Steelers Nation returns to its normal routine
Eighty guards at the Allegheny County Jail — about 21 percent of those scheduled to work — called off Super Bowl Sunday, costing the county $24,141 in overtime to fill shifts, an official said.

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Efforts to challenge, intimidate voters on the rise in Texas and across nation

Efforts to challenge, intimidate voters on the rise in Texas and across nation
Brennan Center for Justice This election cycle, one of the biggest obstacles in getting people to vote won’t be getting them to the polls —it will be protecting them from groups out to stop them from voting once they get…

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You must live in a third world country, since YOU live on less than $2 in a G8 nation.?

I often hear about 3rd world poverty being described as living on less than $2 USD per day. Yet like most buzz phrases it does not encompass the complexity of the issue. Par example, you of course cannot survive in a first world nation on $2 BUT many people in poor countries could live quite well on $60USD per month. What this means in short is that someone making $2 a day in some exploited neo colonialism backwater, actually lives better than MILLIONS of people in the so-called 1st world. Most people sleeping under bridges in the u.s. would prefer the dignity and satisfaction of being exploited in a 3rd world sweatshop, if it meant a roof over their head and providing for their family each night. When we released the manufacturing sector of our economy 20yrs ago, they told us that we would be a technological white collar economy. Then they used work visas to hire techno savvy people from africa and india, plus doctors and call centers were place offshore. 3rd world is growing…
cont- to include more and more of us everyday. This is guaranteed certainty when you consider 2 undisputed factors. 1. The amount of wealth held by the richest percent of the population is growing and 2. The official definition(not culturally misguided one that teaches only non black and brown countries avoid corruption and know how to add) but of exploitation with upside down economies forced to try and trade raw resources(like sugar) for cars and televisions. This makes a growing number of people in 1st world countries, 3rd world residents. Most 1st world households are 3rd world. YOU are trying to trade you skills to companies on the world market and keep using credit to mortgage your future earning for a bit of fancy trappings today. Most of my generation finds themselves with multiple degrees and a fear of having children only to be falling behind in reaching financial security. Everyone going to college is afraid to come out before they turn 40 because they keep telling
cont–you that education has something to do with income. You go to school an extra 4 years and the job is still taught to someone in 3 weeks in india. This dampens wages worldwide(like commodity prices for 3rd world) while having 1st world cravings and needs. Consider yourself the 3rd world leader of your home. Comments welcome.
food for thought on the detailed version of 3rd world

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/ThirdWorld_def.html

If the US lowered the minimum wage back to $4.25 an hour, would we get the nation back to work?

At $4.25 America would be competitive and employers would actually invest in training workers. Higher minimum wage laws have actually seemed to suppress wages lately and have sent jobs offshore. I can see millions of call center jobs coming back if companies could hire at more reasonable wages.

What do you think? Is it time to reconsider minimum wage?