An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A Poor Neighborhood | FREEdom Of Speech Dear Newt Gingrich, I recently saw you stand up in front of a group of people and allow some of the most idiotic, unfounded, racist, and ignorant words pass your lips that I’ve ever heard from a member of a group of the most unqualified presidential candidates America has ever seen. To have the audacity to say that poor kids, and let’s be clear that’s republican speak for black and brown kids, “have no habits of working and nobody around them who works” is not only an insult to me as black man who grew up in one of those “really poor” neighborhoods you spoke of, but it’s an insult to my mother. many other black, brown and white children, adults, and hard working parents(often single parents) who get up every single day to try to provide a better life for their children in poor neighborhoods. As a child who grew up in Compton in the early 90′s, one of the most dangerous A son who received academic and athletic scholarship offers from three Ivy League schools completing a degree at UCLA. labor. PS.
Salvation Army says “Gays Need to Be Put to Death” Christmas, it is the time of the year for holiday shopping, and also hearing the bell ringers for the Salvation Army collection donations. Those donations provide Christmas dinners, clothing, and Christmas toys for children in need. The charity collects millions of dollars in donations every year, and they distribute it to needy families, seniors, and the homeless in keeping with the spirit of the holiday season. 17-sep-2013 For those who think anyone might be confused as to if this is or is not a photoshopped image. It IS or it's at least a staged photo. The Salvation Army has expressed their Christian beliefs in the past, stating that they do not accept the LGBTQ lifestyle, nor do they stand up for gay marriage. Ryan questioned Craibe about Salvation Story: Salvationist Handbook of Doctrine, the manual used to train Salvation Army “soldiers” and members. “ Ryan: According to the Salvation Army gay parents deserve death. “Craibe: Well, that’s a part of our belief system.”
Public Shaming - Baseball Fans SUPER ANGRY Hispanic American Superstar Sang ‘God Bless America’ at All-Star Game Why Healthful Vending Machines Might Hurt The Blind Vending machines at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., were stocked with more healthful snacks in 2006. Danny Johnston/AP hide caption toggle caption Danny Johnston/AP Look in any vending machine, and you can find plenty of snacks with dubious nutritional profiles. "We've got a lot of Cheetos and Pop-Tarts and candy bars and cookies and things like that," says state Rep. She notes that the obesity epidemic has a direct impact on the state, so she introduced a bill to have vending machines on state property switch to healthful options. In 1936, Congress gave blind vendors priority to operate vending and concessions on federal property with the Randolph Sheppard Act. Why? Kevan Worley, director of the National Association of Blind Merchants, says "2,300 blind entrepreneurs go to work every day to feed their families because of the Randolph Sheppard Act. "Do vending machines contribute negatively to the overall diet?"
Owning The Middle Brittney Griner wants to know if anyone will recognize her. The world's most famous female basketball player tucks her dreadlocks into a gray hoodie, slides on bright yellow sunglasses and hunches her shoulders, trying to knock an inch or two off her 6-foot-8 frame. "If you didn't already know it was me, would you know it was me?" Photo Gallery: Brittney Griner ESPN The Magazine takes you behind the scenes of its cover shoot with Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner. The disguise does the trick. One night earlier, on April 15, the Phoenix Mercury made the 22-year-old center from Baylor the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, generating a new wave of attention for a player who already was turning heads. Hiding in the open is a fun game for Griner now, akin to concealing a giraffe in a meadow. "I am 100-percent happy," she says. espnW & The Magazine: Brittney Griner Social Call Griner used to keep her Twitter and Instagram accounts private, approving each individual request. Enlarge Belief System
High CEO Pay Relies On 'Self-Serving Myth': Report A new report undermines a common rationale for paying chief executives huge sums. The notion that CEOs will jump ship lured by the offer of better pay in another country is a “self-serving...myth,” concludes research published Monday by the High Pay Centre, a London-based think tank. Just 0.8 percent of CEOs in the Fortune Global 500 were poached while serving as a CEO in a different country, the report found. North American companies rarely hire a CEO from another company, even in the same country. Eighty-seven percent of North American CEOs in the study were promoted from within. Yet despite the low turnover rates, pay for chief executive officers is rising at a rate that far outstrips the perfunctory raises seen among the corporate rank-and-file. CEOs of U.S. public companies on average made $9.6 million in 2011, according to the Associated Press. CEOs Who Get Paid Significantly More Than Their Employees 10. CEO-to-employee pay ratio: 322:1 CEO: Indra K. Getty Images
ogle Ad Delivery Can Show 'Racial Bias,' Says Harvard Study A Google search for a "racially associated name" is more likely to trigger advertisements suggesting the person has a criminal background, according to a study by a Harvard professor. Latanya Sweeney, a professor of government and technology at Harvard University and a specialist in online privacy, found that queries for a "black identifying" name were more likely to trigger an advertisement suggesting an arrest record than names traditionally given to white babies. The study involved searches for 2,184 racially associated names as determined by prior workplace discrimination studies. Sweeney focused her analysis on Google.com and a highly trafficked news website that displays the widely used Google AdWords advertisements. Names often given to black babies, such as DeShawn, Darnell and Jermaine, generated ads suggesting an arrest record in 81 to 86 percent of the searches on one website and 92 to 95 percent on the other, Sweeney wrote. SLIDESHOW: Google Doodles
Gender Pay Gap Widened In 2012, Back To 2005 Levels Women have made huge strides in the workplace but still are falling short when it comes to pay. New data from the Labor Department reveals that in 2012, women made only 81 percent as much as male workers, on average. Women made less than men in all but two occupations, according to the available data. The gender pay gap actually widened last year (women made 82 percent as much as men in 2011) and now has returned to 2005 levels, according to the Labor Department. The latest push to end the gender wage gap is coming from President Barack Obama, who on Tuesday night made another push in support of a bill that would seek to ensure paycheck fairness. Check out the jobs with the widest gender pay gaps, according to the Labor Department: Jobs With Enormous Gender Pay Gaps 10. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s: 69.1 percent (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) Getty Images
Social Mobility: Is The American Dream Slipping Away? This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Lynn Neary, in Washington. Neal Conan is away. A recent study from the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts finds that 83 percent of adult children make more money than their parents did, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're better off socially or economically. Tell us about a moment when you realized you were moving up or down the economic ladder? Later in the program, ghostwriting for Sweet Valley High. MARILYN GEEWAX, BYLINE: Hi Lynn. NEARY: So economic mobility seems to be on the minds of people on both the left and the right. JEB BUSH: I think going forward we have to deal with our longer structural problems. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: They'll get richer. BUSH: It's just - it is so un-American. NEARY: Un-American. GEEWAX: Well, it's certainly true that the idea of economic mobility is a core principle for Americans. So this is a - these are two separate ideas. But are you moving up relative to your parents? ERIC: Hi. NEARY: Hi, go ahead.
Interview: Mahzarin Banaji And Anthony Greenwald, Authors Of 'Blindspot' : Code Switch Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji was once approached by a reporter for an interview. When Banaji heard the name of the magazine the reporter was writing for, she declined the interview: She didn't think much of the magazine and believed it portrayed research in psychology inaccurately. But then the reporter said something that made her reconsider, Banaji recalled: "She said, 'You know, I used to be a student at Yale when you were there, and even though I didn't take a course with you, I do remember hearing about your work. The next words out of Banaji's mouth: "OK, come on over; I'll talk to you." After she changed her mind, Banaji got to thinking. For most people, this would have been so obvious and self-explanatory it would have required no further thought. For Banaji, however, it was the start of a psychological exploration into the nature and consequences of favoritism — why we give some people the kind of extra-special treatment we don't give others. The ER doctor froze.
School size plays a role in interracial friendships The bigger the pool of potential friends, the less likely they'll be interracial, according to a study out today that examines the way young people form friendships. Popular wisdom is that the larger the community, the more diverse it will be, and the University of Michigan researchers don't dispute that. But when it comes to forming friendships, they say, the size of the school makes the difference. "Humans consider multiple factors in choosing whom to be friends with — family background, academic performance, personality, religion, hobbies — many, many things besides race," says co-author Yu Xie, a sociology professor at the Ann Arbor campus. "In a smaller community, the number of potential friends is limited. The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on a nationally representative sample of 4,745 students in grades 7-12 collected during the 1994-95 school year. Read or Share this story:
Wealth Inequality Is a Problem, but How Do You Even Begin to Solve It? - Derek Thompson Europe's hot new idea: Slashing compensation You might consider America's vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more money. More money tends to lead to bigger properties, fatter savings, and better access to capital markets. Poorer people save much less, don't have much in the way of a stock portfolio, and (somewhat by definition) aren't owners or partners in rich private firms. The two easiest ways to think about reducing wealth inequality are (a) building up the bottom and (b) cutting down the top. If you find income-capping sort of a goofy idea, perhaps you're not a member of our trans-oceanic readership. Europe in on a rampage against sky-scraping compensation packages. When Switzerland puts its foot down on rich bankers, you know something's wrong. But that doesn't mean the Swiss solution is right. Maybe they're right. Maybe it was only a matter of time.
A Social Security Back-to-Work Program That Doesn’t Work Shortly after Mr. Howard’s benefit checks started arriving, he received a four-by-six-inch card from Social Security informing him of services to help him return to work. Confused by the bureaucratic language and fearing the loss of medical coverage, he discarded it. When he called the local office, he said a staff member did not seem to know what his rights were or what help was available. “I thought it is just better to get what we are getting,” he said. In fact, Social Security offers disability beneficiaries some incentive to ease back into the work force. In 1999, Congress passed a law authorizing the Ticket to Work program, which offers beneficiaries practical help with a job search. So far, the program has had little success. A Social Security spokesman noted that some other beneficiaries had returned to work without using its Ticket to Work program. Officials say they have streamlined and simplified the Ticket to Work program. Photo Mr. He moved back to Arkansas, met Ms. Mr. Mr.