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“I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly—and with very little financial encouragement—saving lives and minds,” said Ryan. “I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.”
Perhaps as a reply to the TV show that now holds the community college up to ridicule, Kay Ryan, the US poet laureate, had this to say.
Until you get past $40,000 a year, any raise or higher paying job you get might actually sink you deeper into poverty.
http://trueslant.com/megancottrell/2009/11/13/dont-fall-in-the-poverty-trap-you-might-never-get-out/
This basically sums up my views as well. Smart explanation of some of the underlying issues around immigration.
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Perspective.
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Great concept for the project as well as the ad.
A transcript of a lovely speech delivered by Mike Dempsey.
Some excerpts:
“Whatever the information transmitted, it must, ethically and culturally, reflect its responsibility to society”.
The writer Hanif Kareshie said
“To live a creative life is the best life to live”
I endorse that sentiment wholeheartedly.
To balance the budget, Edick often skimps on food, some weeks spending little more than $10 on groceries, about one-quarter what the federal food stamp program calculates is needed for three “thrifty meals” a day. She patronizes the grimy discount stores whose prices run even lower than Wal-Mart’s, and can tick off their notable sales going back for months. “I had some oranges,” she recalls with a self-deprecating smile. “A couple of months ago, they had grapes on sale.” And, “If it’s less than three dollars for a package of six steaks, that looks like a good deal to me.” (She tries not to think too hard about the quality of a 50-cent steak.)
(via BookForum)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/01/america-195-week
