The “fiscal cliff” is the kind of story the media gobble right up — hold the skepticism. The right-wing is serving up a mouthwatering tale of runaway debt, certain doom and inevitable sacrifice. Meanwhile, everyone to the left of House Speaker John Boehner is too polite to call a turkey a turkey.
With so many issues hanging in the balance, this election was very stressful for me. On a personal level, the most important issue was the threat of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. I have epilepsy, for which I have to take very expensive medicine. I’m not the only one with this story, so it baffles me that anyone would want to let so many people go without lifesaving health insurance.
NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this article by Richard Eskow on AlterNet. Eskow writes: ” Women are more likely to be poor than men are, and single mothers are more than twice as likely to be poor as single fathers. Approximately one out of eve…
Josh Eidelson writes for The Nation: “[U]nion-backed Walmart worker groups said to expect a thousand strikes or demonstrations spread over nine days, culminating in an unprecedented array of ‘Black Friday’ disruptions.”
With the election less than five days away, I’ve reached the final part in my series on the Romney-Ryan budget plan and its effects on women.