September 2009
8 posts
Cause of Death? Lack of Insurance. →
“A new Harvard study estimates that nearly 45,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance — and that’s after other factors like income and unhealthy behaviors are taken into account.
“Deaths associated with lack of health insurance now exceed those caused by many common killers such as kidney disease,” an article by the Cambridge Health...
More Slaves Than Ever in the World →
The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve eliminated slavery.
But sadly that is not the truth.
One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years...
