Justice For The Rest Of Us

Fox posted this very misleading graphic comparing people on welfare to people with full-time jobs to conclude that there are more people on welfare than with jobs—by the looks of this chart, 5 times as many people on welfare than there are working. 

Let’s break down everything that is wrong with this.

The chart uses a shortened y-axis to make the number of people on welfare look 5 times as large as the number of people with jobs. 108.6 is not five times bigger than 101.7. 

The figure for the “people on welfare” includes anyone in a household where one member participated in a means-tested program. The figure for people with a full-time job is only individuals who worked. 

Many people who receive federal benefits also work—6.4 million households where someone works also receive food stamps, for example. 

Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg studied the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.

McDonald’s is finally getting real about helping its workers get by. The company has moved past the fake budget that includes a second job and allocates just $20 a month for health insurance. Nope, now McDonald’s is giving workers the real secret to survival on McDonald’s wages: government assistance.

Occupy Wall Street 9/24 - Woman dragged, girls pepper sprayed

Recently I’ve been posting about the protest at Occupy Wall Street, because the injustice of the…

John Pike, the cop from the University of California Davis who directly pepper-sprayed Occupy protesters in November 2011, was just awarded a $38,000 worker’s compensation settlement.