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Ooooh SNAP card!
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republicans: NO TAXES EVER!
republicans: LET’S GO TO WAR!
republicans: OMG WHAT IS THIS DEFICIT?! it must be because of democrats and liberalsyup
#TrueStory
Here’s something that your HRA Caseworker probably has not shared with you.
Did you know that HRA (aka Dept of Social Services) will reimburse your public transportation costs for each day that you are in attendance? They may even prorate the amount.
Go to your assigned HRA office and ask for form W-700D it’s a 2 page form (front and back or copied on separate pages) Get your attendance records for the semester, and past semesters. Make blank copies of the W-700D (you will need to fill this out and submit at the end of every semester (you can also do it once per month) and submitted to your HASA Caseworker or Financial Worker (best to submit it to your Caseworker), and make sure copies are made and that your sign and you are given your proof of services received every time you visit HRA.
It could take a month or two but the money will be available through your EBT (SNAP) card.
Be sure to ask your Caseworker if there are any other allowances for students whether it’s an accredited college, technical training, or trades trades training institution you are entitled to these benefits.
You don’t have to be on Public Assistance forever… The fact that you are in school shows that you looking to make a change and you deserve all the assistance you can get!
Get it!
Elizabeth Warren EMBARRASSES Bank Regulators At First Hearing (by Les Grossman)
I just switched to North American Power and soon I will be saving money each month while supporting charities in need.
Their rates for 100% Green Energy were equal to ConEd… so hey? why not? Also, I got to choose Hope for Haiti as the charity to receive a monthly donation.
Unemployment rate, by diploma: 8.5 percent may be an improvement in the unemployment figure (the lowest it’s been in two years), but a recent study by Georgetown University shows college graduates still have it rough, especially those in architecture and the arts, with unemployment rates of 13.9 percent and 11.1 percent respectively. READ MORE
Dear World Leaders,
NO amount of dirty blood money exchanged during bullshit wars is worth the life of a human being. No matter ethnicity, sexuality, skin color or territory. WE the HUMAN RACE, We the SOLDIERS, We the CITIZENS, We the 99%, WE THE PEOPLE, ARE. FED. UP. You no longer fight for freedom of your people but, rather the freedom to keep oppressing your people and keeping us blinded by petty differences over, color of skin, language, religion and land. As long as we are ignorant to the fact that we have ALWAYS had more similarities with each other than differences, you can keep getting paid and fucking us over. NO MORE.
You will no longer force us to choose sides and pressure us with lies and political agendas to benefit you 1% domination. No longer will we turn a blind eye/ear to wars that are falsely waged in the name of “FREEDOM”. We will no longer allow you to kill our fellow HUMAN family members without making a loud, unified, disapproving voice. NO longer will you use OUR MONEY to “BAIL OUT” BILLION $$$ corporations, just so they can lay us off, send our jobs elsewhere, deny our HUMAN RIGHT to have care for our health, deny our children education and knowledge which should be FREE for all, Toss aside our elders, and destroy OUR economy for their gain. Your time is nearing it’s end.
The 99% are waking up from your dumbed down, commercial, consumerist, “EVERYONE CAN HAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM” brainwashed stupor. All religions, Races, Nations, and Class systems are coming together to put an end to this madness. We WILL be proud of our differences and let everyone have the God given right to love anyone they choose, pray to anyone they choose, live anywhere they choose, work anywhere they choose, and go to school anywhere they choose.
We don’t want violence or hate. Just peace and understanding among the people. We want equality and a chance for everyone to reach their full potential in this world. We don’t all have to be m/billionaires but, the majority of us don’t all have to be in poverty either. Please consider what is right, what is fair, and what is necessary in order for us ALL to evolve.
Sincerely, A 99%er -EISM
#OccupySeattle: Octogenarian activist Dorli Rainey on being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, importance of activism
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to “take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.”
Early this morning, hundreds of demonstrators are marching on Wall Street, taking over the Financial District with mass protests.
Police have moved in and started to arrest many of the demonstrators, who are blocking Wall Street employees from getting to work and shutting down intersections.
Photo h/t: @allisonkilkenny
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More swiftly than we ever believed possible, the occupation at Zuccotti Park has opened up a political conversation and shifted the terrain. A recent poll revealed that 67 percent of New Yorkers agree with the views of Occupy Wall Street protesters and that almost three-quarters of them favor a tax on millionaires. People who have not been to demonstrations in years—or perhaps ever—have taken to the streets across the country. Instead of being ashamed about unemployment and personal debt, people are indignant. Instead of blaming a few “bad apples,” fingers are pointing to the economic system at large. The ultimate sign of early success is that politicians who initially scoffed at the outliers at Zuccotti Park have had to proclaim their allegiance to the 99 percent. Look at Republican hopeful Mitt Romney who first sounded the alarm about “dangerous … class warfare” and now says he doesn’t “worry about the top 1 percent” and that, when he looks at Wall Street, he “understands how those people [the protesters] feel.”
When high-profile Democrats like Bill Clinton embrace the Wall Street demonstrations on David Letterman (then advise the movement to throw its weight behind Obama), and Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor goes from calling occupiers “mobs” to “justifiably frustrated,” the left needs to adjust and push the envelope accordingly. When influential conservatives are fretting on their blogs that OWS is stealing their thunder (“These people are open to listen to anyone who is willing to take on Wall Street,” wrote blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson, “We shouldn’t let unwashed hippies be the only people they hear speaking to their concerns”) we need to recognize, if nothing else, that the Occupy movement has already tilted the playing field and move our goal posts accordingly— further left so we keep dragging the political conversation with us.
Happy Bank Transfer Day!
Really, you only need a few basic resources to move your money. Here they are, via the Move Your Money Project website:
—A short primer on why you should take your money out of corporate banks.
—A tool to find community banks and credit unions near you and to check your local banks’ IRA rating, which tells you how sound an institution is.
—An easy seven-step guide to switching banks.
That’s it! That’s everything you need to know about moving your money. And it seems that this message is already getting out. Last month, some 650,000 Americans joined a credit union — that’s more than the number of people who joined a credit union in all of last year. Will you join their ranks?
Remember, every day can be Bank Transfer day — it’s not too late to move your money! Here’s a list of addresses where you can find your local credit union in several countries.
