Stories I've Missed in the Last Week

Published April 06, 2009 @ 06:00AM PT

As mentioned, some family stuff had stolen me away from the blog this past week. But I'm getting back on track!

In cleaning out my Google reader, I just had to share these:

Stress impairs memory function in poor children; intergenerational poverty ensues. "Children with stressed lives, then, find it harder to learn...It is not surprising that they do less well at school, end up poor as adults and often visit the same circumstances on their own children." (H/t Natasha - are you reading Sustainable Food yet??)

Instead of tent cities, why not shipping container compounds? Old shipping containers = low-cost, award-winning housing (etc.) solutions. Worker housing for all! Discuss.

As I've been saying, economic instability can be atrociously destablizing.

A fabulous feminist blogger friend takes us to task here for our classist assumptions lately. How can we get her to join Change.org and really let us have it? :)

If it's good enough for welfare recipients, it's good enough for Rick Wagoner.

StimulusWatch offers good insight to what your neighbors care about - and newsflash! Public housing isn't it!

The progressive caucus budget in all its fabulous glory...we'll pass it someday!!

(photo of shipping container homes by tnarik)

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Government Able to End Hunger in US, Activist Says
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Posted by Mary Acosta on 04/10/2009 @ 11:28AM PT
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Leigh is a PhD candidate in urban planning at MIT, and a consultant on U.S. Gulf Coast recovery. She sits on the Board of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation in Boston, and has worked with non-profits, foundations and local governments on policies and programs aimed at reducing urban poverty and inequality.