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Accentuate the Positive
May 10, 2010 by winfreylee (View Source)
A few years ago, Eton and Margarette Lacon noticed that whereever they went it seemed that people were displaying negativity. The Lacons decided to fight that. How was the big question? After time and time again of searching they came up with the name "Were Worth It" for the company. Why Were Worth It. Simple we as a people are we not worth being happy, are we not worth being in love, should we not be healthy, shoud we not have financial stability. More...
Poor? Pay Up. Having Little Money Often Means No Car, No Washing Machine, No Checking Account And No Break From Fees and High Prices.
May 25, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(wapo) You have to be rich to be poor.
That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't often explain. More...
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Tent City in Sacramento, California. America faces new Depression misery as financial crisis worsens.
March 13, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(timesonline) By the wide stretch of the American River in Sacramento, history is repeating itself. Here, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, men and women who had lost everything and despaired of finding work built rough shelters and huddled around fires.
Now the spiral of job losses and house repossessions has left another wave of Americans homeless, and a new tent city is growing rapidly on lumpy, derelict land between the river and the railway tracks here in the capital of California.
There are more than 300 people living in scattered encampments stretching a couple of miles along the river bank. As many as 50 more arrive each week. More...
