Beyond Unemployment Insurance; Rev. Al’s Reinvention
July 27, 2010 by Staff · 4 Comments
Newsweek takes a look at the many lives of Rev. Al Sharpton
What role can a charismatic, African-American preacher-activist play in a post-Obama America, and what would he have to do to remain relevant? Allison Samuels, senior writer for Newsweek, tackled those questions and more in the current cover story, “The Reinvention of the Reverend,” an insightful exploration of the evolution of Rev. Al Sharpton. Samuels joins us for a look at how Rev. Al has changed since the days of the big hair and even bigger persona, and how he just might be even more effective today.
Religion Week continues with Dr. Mark Lewis Taylor, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. A member of the Presbyterian Church, Taylor frequently teaches and lectures in churches and supports church communities in their efforts to organize on justice and peace issues. In his most recent book, Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Politics and American Empire, Taylor relays his deep understanding of the new ways in which religion and politics have merged and how the two subjects are interpreted in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Beyond Unemployment compensation that expires while some are eligible for Tier Extensions, others are not depending on how long they have worked in the workforce.
Stay-at-home-mothers who return to the workforce, and then lose their jobs will receive very little UC.
In this recession where there are not enough jobs for all those who are willing to work, people must create their own jobs; become self-employed.
This recession has been in effect for 20 years and there has been very little to no improvement on getting all the people who want to earn a living employed; therefore,
citizens of the United States are going to have to start taking responsibility for their present conditions and the conditions that will result into the future–stop reproducing more people beyond what the labor force can employ.
I have had the most horrific experience during these Equal Opportunity Employment times. I heard it said that insurance companies and medical professions are making decisions that will lead to socialized medicine; it is a fact that socialized medicine is already being practiced and it is not just the medical institutions. The college, the church, and saboteurs will destroy your health and create a diagnosis that will keep a person from being hired because discrimination is prohibited, but being an insurance risk is not prohibited, and when saboteurs include the sleaze factor, they will create false diagnoses that will lead to premature death just so they can collect on insurance policies.
Equal Rights are for who?
i think the unemployment rate these times are getting lower compared to last year::,