What Is It About Costco? These terrifying photos of Sears clearance sales in Canada show the devastating impact of the retail apocalypse. Sears has struggled to attract shoppers in recent years.Getty Images Sears Canada, which is separate from Sears' business in the US, is liquidating all of its assets.As it closes stores, everything has gone on sale.The resulting photos are apocalyptic.
Sears is shuttering its Canadian locations — and the stores are descending into chaos. Finland's universal basic income trial for unemployed reduces stress levels, says official. Citizens receiving a basic monthly income as part of a radical Finnish pilot scheme have seen a reduction in their stress levels, an official leading the trial has said.
The first of its kind in Europe, the scheme sees 2,000 people receive 560 euros (£473) every month for two years. Recipients do not have to report whether they are seeking employment or how they are spending the money, which is deducted from any benefits they are already receiving. A New Oakland Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism Is Dead. It’s works such as Rimini Protokoll’s that emphasize the Museum of Capitalism’s surreal setting.
The museum’s temporary location is tucked away in Oakland’s Jack London Square, a developed waterfront area that was initially envisioned as a tourist destination but has been plagued with storefront vacancies for the past decade—and is eerily deserted on most days of the week. Steves and Furstnau partnered with the Jack London Improvement District to move into a massive empty building that was designed to be a bustling vendor marketplace. Vice. Middle-class rules deaden too many arts venues. Let's fill them with life and noise. In Edinburgh, where I live, the fringe and other festivals are turning this great city into a dressing-up box.
The street life is heightened, as if everyone's waiting for their cue, their choreographed moment, the flash mob music to begin. The arts are manifold these days, re-enchanting and rejuvenating cityscapes as best they can, which is great. This Is What It Looks Like When Men Are Allowed To Take 480 Days Of Paternity Leave. The Pain Of Gentrification Knows No Borders. When I think about the history of my family, it seems displacement is coded into our DNA.
For centuries my people have been moving—the Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition who then ended up colonizing the Dominican Republic, the indigenous Taíno displaced and almost eradicated, the African slaves brought over to work the sugar plantations. I am a genetic cocktail of dispossessed people. Time and time again, we make homes in hostile territories, only to find ourselves pushed out, stolen, or stolen from.
It’s a pattern that has continued: Where once we faced religious persecution, colonialism, and the transatlantic slave trade, today my family finds itself facing gentrification. Why the poor pay more for toilet paper — and just about everything else. (Washington Post illustration; iStock) There are several ways to save money on, say, a roll of toilet paper.
You can reach for the cheaper version: the store brand, or the singly-ply TP, or the stuff that feels like packing paper. The Economist can’t figure out why millennials aren’t buying diamonds. Ana Kasparian is best known as a host and producer of the largest online news show "The Young Turks," (TYT) a show covering politics, pop culture and lifestyle.
She is also the main host of the rapidly growing panel show "The Point" on the TYT Network. When Ana's not hosting and producing news content, she teaches upper division journalism at her alma mater California State University Northridge. Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes. "What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?
" I hear this, now and then, from people of wealthy and powerful backgrounds. There is a kind of incredulity. "After all," the subtext seems to read, "we scream bloody murder when anyone so much as threatens our tax shelters; if someone were to go after my access to food or shelter, I'd sure as hell be burning banks and storming parliament. 5 Common Assumptions You Never Realized Were Classist. The 4 Types of People on Welfare Nobody Talks About. What do you imagine when you hear the word "welfare"?
Most of us think of a minority living in a filthy house with five kids running around while an alcoholic dad sleeps it off face down on the couch ... if there's even a dad at all. I talked in another article about the things politicians will never understand about poor people, but it's not just Washington elites who treat the poor like an alien species. Hell, I find myself thinking in "welfare queen" stereotypes, and I grew up among them. 30 Shocking Photos Of Child Labor Between 1908 And 1916. 3 Ways to Responsibly and Compassionately Respond to Panhandling. I’ve moved to the other side of the street to avoid it.
I’ve lowered my eyes so that I didn’t have to acknowledge it. I’ve brushed it off with excuses to make me feel a little less guilty. When I’m being honest, panhandling makes me uncomfortable. As a woman, I’m generally uncomfortable around anyone demanding my attention on the street. Here are 7 things people who say they’re ‘fiscally conservative but socially liberal’ don’t understand. A handsome big moustached hipster man smoking cigarette in the city (Shutterstock) “Well, I’m conservative, but I’m not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I’m pro-choice! I’m pro-same-sex-marriage! I’m not a racist! The Charts TED Doesn't Want to Share.
If you want to learn about topics like climate change, sex slavery, global poverty, or solving the world's problems with video games, there's a TED talk for you. But income inequality in the United States? Keep looking. National Journal's Jim Tankersley reported today that the wonkfest's organizers decided not to post the video of a TED presentation by a venture capitalist named Nick Hanauer, who'd spoken about how the American middle class has been left behind: Hundreds of mental health experts issue rallying call against austerity. Austerity cuts are having a “profoundly disturbing” impact on people’s psychological wellbeing and the emotional state of the nation, hundreds of counsellors, psychotherapists and mental health experts have said in a letter to the Guardian.
They said an “intimidatory disciplinary regime” facing benefits claimants would be made worse by further “unacceptable” proposals outlined in the budget. These amounted to state “get to work” therapy and were both damaging and professionally unethical, they said. Increasing inequality and poverty, families being moved out of their homes and new systems determining benefit levels were part of “a wider reality of a society thrown completely off balance by the emotional toxicity of neoliberal thinking”, according to more than 400 signatories to the letter. The consequences were “most visible in the therapist’s consulting room”. Poor moms stressed, not mentally ill, study finds.
Your income barely covers your bills (to say nothing of hockey lessons or dance class), and your work hours are erratic. The neighbourhood’s not the best, daycare is iffy and you barely have time to check the homework, let alone help with the science project. Is it any wonder that poverty might be causing anxiety among low-income mothers? A new U.S. study has found that poor mothers are more likely to be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder – not because they suffer from a mental illness – but because they are struggling with the stress of being poor. These Portraits Show Homeless Youth As They Wish To Be Seen.
The double-standard of making the poor prove they’re worthy of government benefits. The actual contents of a Rhode Island woman's cupboard after two shopping trips paid for with food stamps. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) Poverty looks pretty great if you're not living in it. If You Judge People's Teeth, You Might Be Being Classist – Here's Why. 5 Insane Laws Written Specifically to Harass Poor People. Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes.