Medical Bankruptcy Plus Credit Check on Job Search = Permanent Underclass

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 11:14 AM PDT

2009/08/19 · 11:14

I saw the need for universal healthcare in the US from a very different angle when reading the Times coverage on how the jobless are facing a new challenge: prospective employers are increasingly using credit checks as a basis for selecting their hires.

People who've declared bankruptcy over healthcare bills, should they get well enough to work again, now face a new challenge, if they haven't been able to keep their job. They've become, increasingly, unemployable. And then this quote pulled me up short:

"How do you get out from under it?" asked Matthew W. Finkin, a law professor at the University of Illinois, who fears that the unemployed and debt-ridden could form a luckless class. "You can’t re-establish your credit if you can’t get a job, and you can’t get a job if you’ve got bad credit."

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 9:56 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 21:56

A friend alerted me to this, and I came here hoping it was already an action alert, but it's not.

MSNBC is asking viewers to "give Obama a grade". Whatever I think of this (I think it's stupid and a further demeaning of our political process), I'm not keen for the grade to be thrown---which, it is, by our Teabagging brigade. So, please go follow this link and give President Obama the grade you think he deserves. And please rec, forward, etc., as you see fit. Let's do this.

MSNBC: Give Obama A Grade

Hillary's Famous Lunch With Rupert Murdoch

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 9:17 AM PDT

2008/05/03 · 09:17

Years ago, shortly after becoming the junior Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton had a lunch with Rupert Murdoch that rocked many of us at the time. I'm going to admit right now, back then, that I thought it was smart politics. It was a bold move, it seemed to me. This was when I lived in New York City and liked her. I watched as the review of the biography of her was trashed inside the pages of the New York Post, and I thought, she's finally outmaneuvered the vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Now I know, she just entered it.

AlexanderChee

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 8:42 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 20:42

If Obama is so easily beatable, as some Republican strategists enjoy saying right now, why is Obama out-fundraising McCain by so much? Republicans are talking about supporting him, but they aren't actually supporting him where it counts, in fund-raising. Which to me is the only polling that matters in this capitalist state I live in.

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 8:28 AM PST

2006/12/06 · 08:28

Last week I clicked over to Salon, where I read Sydney Blumenthal's op-ed piece on the election results. It was a singularly convincing take on the results, with a lot of numbers to back up what he was saying, that the country is trending blue, and yet I haven't seen anyone so much as peep about it. So I thought I'd peep. The first paragraph read to me, admittedly, like my own sense of reality, so I was suspicious of myself for liking it, and yet I thought I'd put this out there and ask, Did you read this? Does this reflect your own sense of what's going on? Is there perhaps more cause for hope, for real change, than we thought?

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Generation Dem---Sydney Blumenthal on Salon