A Vaccine Against Ignorance

Posted on September 23, 2011 at 8:00 pm by JM Ashby


Artist – Taylor Jones

In other news, British lawyers are planning to file lawsuits against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. here inside the United States in connection with the phone-hacking scandal, and according to a new report released by the University of New Hampshire, 1 in 4 American children under the age of 6 now live in poverty.

Officially, the federal poverty level is an annual income of $22,314 for a family of four, and $11,139 for a single person in 2010. Both of those figures seem extraordinarily low.

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  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    I once had a job making $20,000 a year and I felt uncomfortable with the idea of moving into a one bedroom apartment by myself. Granted, I was in my early 20s and threw money around like a stripper after tip-out, but I can’t imagine a family of four making it on $22,314.

  • horatiogalt

    It’s 22k, now? Progress, I guess. Last time I was up on it, it was 19k and change. Bleah…

  • mrbrink

    And those people working for poverty have been underpaid for decades.

    400 families have more wealth than 155 million Americans combined.

    Over the past 30 years the top 5% have swallowed up all the growth in national wealth.

    They’d like to pay people more, hire more, but buying elections and destroying the social safety net doesn’t come cheap!

    They’re such philanthropists, too! They have to control all the wealth in America. Someone has protect those poor moochers from paying income taxes.

  • http://greedyrepublicans.com ChristinaMorgan

    Wouldn’t it be nice if there was such a thing as a vaccine for ignorance? Ignorance seems to be a pandemic these days.

  • Celine Grace

    I have a master’s degree in a hard science. I have a full-time union job with decent benefits in a public university. My take home pay after taxes is $18,000/year. I wish I were even half as well off a union thug as the republicans seem to think I must be.