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The HP Alliance is constantly looking for volunteers to write press releases, blog posts, help with back end web design, and more. Contact andrew@thehpalliance.org for more details.
Hometown: Honolulu and Boston, MA
Interests: America's Future Now, Health Care for All, Making Sense, New Energy, Quality Education, Real Security, Social Security, The Big Con, An Economy for All, Invest In America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy, child soldiers, Congo, Darfur, Genocide, global transformation, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Alliance, Hermann Hesse, JK Rowling, Media Reform, new media, Poverty, Progressive Movement, Rwanda, spirituality
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Myopic Selfishness of the Wealthy Leads to Constricting Economy

By Gordon Johnson
September 3, 2008

The economic stance in favor today is to give breaks to the wealthy under the expectation that if they have more money, they are more likely to be in a position to invest to make our means of production bigger and better. What the stance is missing is that corporations do lots of marketing studies to figure out how much of what to produce. Guess what the marketing studies look at? more »

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New U.S. Census Data: Same Reality

By Alex Carter
August 26, 2008

Newly released data by the United States Census Bureau continues to show how much President George W. Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape. more »

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Welfare Caseloads Rising

From usatoday.com
May 5th, 2008

usatoday.com — Federal data for the last half of 2007 show welfare rolls rose about 0.6 percent, and 27 states reported increases. That follows a decline of 68 percent since a Cointon-area federal law imposed work requirements, time limits and penalties for recipients who don't follow the rules.

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Daniel Maguire
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Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
Interests: An Economy for All, Ethics, Poverty, religion
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Europe asked to boost anti-poverty aid

From businessweek.com
April 10th, 2008

businessweek.com — The European Union's aid chief warned EU nations on Wednesday to increase their assistance to poor countries to meet promises to halve extreme poverty around the world by 2015.

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Global Extreme Poverty

Submitted by Alex Carter
April 9, 2008

Globally about 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty.

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Lesley Wroughton. "Global poverty to halve by 2015, Africa lags-report." Reuters.April 8, 2008.
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