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Posted by Spider-Pig* on Tue Feb 11 09:53:53 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by The silence on Tue Feb 11 09:18:27 2020.* You're arguing past each other because you're both right. He wouldn't have been entitled to receive any SS from present day workers if he hadn't paid the retirees of old with his wage deductions in the past. So he's correct in saying that he paid for his SS benefits.
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Posted by Spider-Pig* on Tue Feb 11 10:07:20 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Feb 10 19:48:46 2020.* It's a base line. Put out controversial crap like Medicare/SS cuts, so that the other cuts don't seem as bad and when those lesser cuts pass, it's a good "compromise." Of course, Trump, inveterate liar, ran on not cutting Medicare/SS. That's how he won the votes of the "Obama/Trump voters." Democrats can easily run against his false promises, but are instead doubling down on pie-in-the-sky.
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Tue Feb 11 12:03:32 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 03:50:29 2020.* How about Buster Douglas?? While being a huge underdog, he kicked Mike Tyson's ass on this day, 1990.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:08:31 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Feb 11 12:03:32 2020.* TYSON GOT WHIPPED BY HOLLYFIELD TOO
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:09:02 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Feb 11 09:53:53 2020.* IAWTP
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:09:30 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by The silence on Tue Feb 11 09:18:27 2020.* IDWYP
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:10:07 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by ntrainride on Tue Feb 11 04:23:03 2020.* WRONG MY RELIGION COMES FIRST NOT THE MILITARY
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Tue Feb 11 12:13:15 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 14:22:48 2020.* I don't get what the different world is. You can't afford food because of your rent. And people have never qualified for food stamps even under Obama using that forumula to begin with. food stamps is a joke. And yes, we live in different worlds. The Nation is doing good, except for a few democrated pockets. VOte them out or move is your only option. It is a crime what is going on in Pelosi's district for example.
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 12:15:26 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 21:28:30 2020.* Figures
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 12:15:53 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 21:57:52 2020.* YOU
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 12:17:25 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 03:50:29 2020.* That's what I said.
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Posted by AlM* on Tue Feb 11 12:21:38 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Dave on Mon Feb 10 21:34:01 2020.* LOL. When I've pointed it out, you just say that the thread title is the title of the article that you linked to. You always used to think that was fine.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:40:10 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Feb 11 12:13:15 2020.* I SAID RENTS NATIONWIDE IS TOO DAMMED HIGH EVERYWHERE FOOD BANKS ARE CLEANED OUT WITH HIGH DEMAND NOW PEOPLE NEED THEIR FOOD STAMPS IN ORDER TO EAT & THEY WORK ONLY A FEW ON THE TOP ARE DOING WELL NOT EVERYONE ..........NOPE THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE HOMELESSNES AND HUNGER IS AT A ALL TIME HIGH YEAH VOTE OUT REPUBLICANS AGREE THERE
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:40:24 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 12:15:26 2020.* WHAT ?????????????????????????????????
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:40:34 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 12:15:53 2020.* YOU
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:41:00 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 12:17:25 2020.* NO YOU DID NOT
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 12:41:31 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by AlM on Tue Feb 11 12:21:38 2020.* IAWTP
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 12:58:53 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 12:40:34 2020.* YOU.
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Posted by Dave* on Tue Feb 11 13:48:54 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by AlM on Tue Feb 11 12:21:38 2020.* That's the fault of the article editor, not me.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 13:50:43 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 12:58:53 2020.* NO
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Posted by Jeff Rosen* on Tue Feb 11 14:08:36 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 23:05:54 2020.* Did the Viet Cong have rights to rule South Viet Nam?
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 14:40:48 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Feb 11 14:08:36 2020.* DO THEY ?? IS IT THIER COUNTRY ?
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BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING
Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Feb 11 14:46:05 2020, in response to TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 12:16:02 2020.* NEW YORK BEOBACHTER SLIMES, NOT FOX Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising Their pay is increasing after a decade of stagnation. One man’s story shows the hope — and limitations — with that shift. By Jeanna Smialek and Ben Casselman Feb. 7, 2020 On a brisk January morning Markus Mitchell arrives at his desk at 8:30, his phone ringing before he can even log in to his computer. An employee at the giant nonprofit where Mr. Mitchell works is locked out of the organization’s network and needs the 24-year-old’s help. Mr. Mitchell became a full-fledged employee at JEVS Human Services in Philadelphia in October, after a year as an apprentice. Just three years ago, he was making $13,000 working in the kitchen at a Chick-fil-A, feeling unsure about his future. Landing the $38,000-a-year position was the latest step in a rapid career ascent made possible in part by America’s record-long economic expansion and low unemployment rate. President Trump frequently celebrates the experience of black workers, noting correctly that the group’s unemployment rate is at its lowest on record. Their wages are also going up — a New York Times analysis of government data found that wage growth for black workers has accelerated recently after lagging for much of the decade-long economic expansion. But when Mr. Mitchell looks around his relatively low-income and heavily black neighborhood, he worries that the rising tide of a strong economy has not been equally good for everyone in his community. And when it comes to his own labor market gains, he’s working hard to make sure they do not prove fleeting. A malignant reality lurks beneath the happy surface as black workers finally make job market progress. Not only did the gains take ~~a decade of~~ steady job growth to materialize, but they could evaporate at the first sign of economic weakness, as they did after previous expansions. In April 2017, Mr. Mitchell quit his low-paying job, hoping that he could achieve a better life. By June that year, he was in a training program, one that helped connect him to another backed by JEVS. That led to a pre-apprenticeship role in partnership with AmeriCorps, then an apprenticeship and now his full-time job. He has one certification, is working on another in networking and could even progress to a cybersecurity test down the road. He’s conscious that without a college degree he has challenges, but hopeful that his on-the-job experience and practical training will help him weather future downturns. “I know that the fact that I don’t have a degree puts me at a disadvantage, over my peers,” he said. “I’ve gained enough knowledge to go and do computer work for people myself, so if that’s what I had to do, I’d do it.” Mr. Mitchell’s story is, on one level, a lesson in the power of a strong labor market to lift up disadvantaged communities. When workers are scarce, companies are more likely to hire people without much experience or formal education, and to provide training to help those employees succeed. Employers are also more likely to consider candidates with disabilities, criminal records or other barriers to work and to offer other options, like flexible hours, to attract people with caregiving responsibilities. Companies are also more likely to raise pay. Wage growth, which was sluggish for much of the recovery, has picked up in recent years, with the strongest gains among workers at the bottom of the earnings ladder, in jobs that are often concentrated in the service sector, like fast food and retail. The Federal Reserve sees the continually expanding work force as a key reason for future patience on interest rates. Mary C. Daly, president of the San Francisco branch, has said Fed officials should see how far the labor expansion can run “experientially.” But tight labor markets alone cannot undo established structural barriers. Even now, the unemployment rate for black Americans is double that of whites — a figure that does not even take into account higher rates of incarceration for black men in particular. The median black worker still makes 78 cents to the median white worker’s $1 each week. Mr. Mitchell grew up in Grays Ferry, a neighborhood in South Philadelphia where rows of identical low-income housing units sit alongside faded corner bodegas. He has lived in his home, which is subsidized, since his family ran into hard times around the last recession. His mother, a teacher, had to take time off work after a bad car accident — and then struggled to find new work as the economy reeled. Since she was the primary breadwinner for her five sons, including one with a severe disability, it was a major blow. The boys were interested in college, but for Mr. Mitchell, high school changed that. He felt that his teachers did not care about him, especially after concerns about the building’s safety forced his high school to shut down before his senior year. Fights plagued the hallways of his new school. There were cages on the windows. “It was waking up to go to a day care, that was actually a jail, that you could freely walk out of,” he said. He cut classes, sneaking out a side door to the freedom of the surrounding city. Though an avid reader — his dresser is buried under psychology classics, as varied as Dale Carnegie and Machiavelli — he failed English. He was pushed through graduation anyway. Early adulthood flowed by in a string of odd jobs. He worked in poison ivy removal (he stopped getting a rash after the fourth or fifth outbreak) and had a short stint at UPS before starting work at Chick-fil-A, where he made $9.50 an hour. He promised himself the job would be short-lived, and spent his mornings and nights reading computer-related training material. But more than a year in, as he was cleaning the floors at Chick-fil-A, a moment shook him. “I was squeegeeing water up, and these guys walked in,” he said. They were technicians, sent there to fix the restaurant’s computer network. They were close to his age, and he couldn’t help comparing their work with his own. “I just told myself: Here’s the risk, here’s the reward. What are you going to do?” It took a few months to finally quit. He was getting a lot of hours at Chick-fil-A, and helping his mother, who now works at a day care, to pay rent. “I didn’t want to set myself up for failure long term, but I didn’t want to set myself up for failure short term, either,” he said. “I knew computers, and people with skills in computers, were in demand. I knew it in my heart,” he said. But at the same time, “who is going to pick this kid up with no college degree, no experience?” His timing was ideal. The shortage of qualified workers in information technology is prompting employers to cast a wider net, fueling demand for apprenticeship programs like the one he completed. “We know because of the economy, employers are trying to expand the pipeline of talent that they’re tapping,” said Edison Freire, a former teacher who founded the apprentice program Mr. Mitchell went through. Mr. Mitchell has made huge gains in the past few years. But his long-term prospects remain uncertain. He still doesn’t have a college degree. He is hoping that his certificate and experience make up for that, but they have yet to be tested in the crucible of a recession. What happens to Mr. Mitchell and others like him has implications for the broader economy. Historically, the gains made during periods of low unemployment have proved transitory for black workers, who are among the last to benefit from a good economy and among the first to suffer in a downturn. But there have been few past examples of a labor market as strong and sustained as the current one. Some economists hope that as more workers like Mr. Mitchell get a foothold in the labor market, and even manage to climb a few rungs up the ladder, they will be better positioned to weather an eventual recession. That larger pool of workers would leave the American economy better off in the long run. Today’s solid labor market comes with costs. A strong economy fuels urbanization and lifts rent, and can make it harder for lower-income minority families like Mr. Mitchell’s to get by. Rent has marched up along with his salary as the family’s housing vouchers have been reduced. Money is manageable, but Mr. Mitchell remains frugal — when he eats a $3 cheesesteak for lunch, he carefully wraps half of it for later. But Mr. Mitchell has big goals. He is hoping that he and his younger brothers can pull together sufficient savings to move themselves and their mother to another neighborhood. He loves where he grew up, but it’s changing — gentrifying, diversifying. And the bustling local market doesn’t seem to be pulling black workers up with it. He noted that Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has not increased, and “very seldom do I hear of someone getting a better job.” (Philadelphia last year raised the minimum wage for city employees and contractors, but state law prohibits the city from raising the floor for all workers. Federal efforts have yet to gain traction.) Philadelphia is a university town, but he worries that it is not focused on educating its native youths, a group that is heavily black. Standing outside his old high school last month, he glumly pointed out the door he used to skip classes. Nobody stopped him, he said. And years later, a steady stream of students — mostly racial or ethnic minorities — are still pouring out. “I don’t see much of a change, as far as my people elevating economically,” he said. “There’s often a loophole through things, sometimes there’s not. I was lucky enough to be blessed with one.” Typical Slimes editorializing after begrudgingly admitting the good news.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 15:19:20 2020, in response to BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 11 14:46:05 2020.* IN THE RED STATES TOO ?? ALSO WHY IS THERE SO MUCH BLACK HOMELESS ON THE RISE NATIONWIDE ??
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:22:52 2020, in response to Re: BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING.... LOL !!, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:19:20 2020. 'We're technically homeless': the eviction epidemic plaguing the US [The Guardian] ,The Guardian•February 11, 2020 were technically homeless& the eviction epidemic plaguing the US Tammie Lyle, a single mother in Richmond, Virginia, was evicted from her home in July 2019 after the rental office of her apartment complex discovered her older daughter was staying with her. “I ended up with the whole family – myself, four children, three grandkids, we had to go. We lived in a hotel for a little while, and then all split up,” Lyle said. “We all live in different houses now. We had to switch the kids’ schools and we missed a lot of time from work because we’re not together and we don’t have childcare.” Related: 'I don't have anywhere else to go': why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing She works two jobs, one at Amazon and another at a 7-Eleven store, and sometimes she has a third if she can find the extra work. Lyle’s story is just one of many when it comes to a modern American phenomenon: a plague of evictions that devastates the lives of already vulnerable families. In the US, an estimated 2.3 million Americans were evicted from their home in 2016, the latest year of available data, as rent prices around the US continue to rise while affordable housing units disappear and the legal system is weighted towards wealthy landlords, not tenants. The impact of an eviction is frequently disastrous. “Once you’re displaced from your house, everything is turned upside down,” added Lyle. Her eviction decreased her credit score, which has made it difficult to find another apartment to rent, especially in Richmond, where rents have risen by 30% in parts of the city since 2012 and eviction rates are the second highest among large cities in the US. In 2016, there were 6,435 evictions in Richmond, a rate of 11.44% of all renters in the city, roughly three to four times the national eviction rate. In Virginia, housing organizers and advocates argue the court systems are widely tilted in favor of landlords over tenants, driving high numbers of eviction lawsuits. “People can get run over in these courts and they don’t really have much of a remedy to go back and show what was wrong,” said Omari al-Qadaffi, a housing organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond. He also noted tenants are required to pay a bond worth three months of rent to appeal any court decision, no matter their income and that the city has seen the destruction of public housing and landlords refusing to accept subsidized housing vouchers. The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) manages 4,000 public housing apartments throughout Richmond, and has been criticized by housing organizers for high eviction rates. In 2017, 1,460 tenants living in RRHA apartments faced an eviction lawsuit, the highest of any landlord in the state of Virginia that year. Criticism for high eviction lawsuit rates caused the RRHA to freeze evictions temporarily in November 2019 until May 2020 and begin working with the city’s eviction diversion program. “I received an eviction notice in September 2019 for $58 because they added on some charges I wasn’t aware of. A few weeks later, I received another eviction threat saying if you don’t remove your dog within 30 days, you will be evicted, but I don’t have a dog,” said a current tenant in Creighton Court, a public housing complex managed by RRHA, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. They provided a copy of both eviction notices. The RRHA is pushing forward with plans to demolish the Creighton Court complex, which will displace more than 300 families. “They’re trying to put us out. We’re here because we need a little help. Its public housing, which means the people own it. I work, I pay tax dollars, so I’ve helped pay for public housing. Why are they making it so much harder on us?” the tenant added. An RRHA spokesperson told the Guardian in an email: “RRHA has no record of the circumstances described. However, in the event that a resident were to receive erroneous notice of a violation of RRHA’s Pet Policy, RRHA believes adequate safeguards are in place to protect the tenant’s interests.” They added that every resident who is affected by redevelopment will be provided with another public housing unit or a tenant-based voucher. ‘We lead the nation in eviction rates’ In North Charleston, South Carolina, renters are plagued with the highest eviction rate of any major city in the US, at a rate of 16.5% of all renters in 2016. “We’ve been pushing for elected officials to really address the fact we lead the nation in eviction rates, and so far the city says they don’t have money to put toward an affordable housing trust fund, but the city is getting ready to unveil an aquatics center that costs about $22.5m. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie?” said a housing organizer in North Charleston who requested to remain anonymous. In September 2019, a new housing court pilot program began in North Charleston to provide tenants with legal representation in eviction court cases, support that has been severely lacking in the city. Nationwide, the majority of tenants who face eviction lawsuits have no legal representation. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie? A housing organizer in North Charleston “We need to have a system where tenants are provided a lawyer even if they cannot afford one,” said the South Carolina state representative Marvin Pendarvis, who proposed a bill last year to improve the rights of tenants in response to high eviction rates in North Charleston. As Pendarvis pushes for legislation to improve the rights of tenants in South Carolina, residents in North Charleston still continue to face evictions, driven by gentrification and new development. A 34-year-old black single mother, who requested to remain anonymous, was evicted from her home on 10 October 2019 after renting it for four years. “The owner of my house decided he didn’t want to rent the house any more, so he gave me a 30-day notice when I was scheduled to renew my lease,” she said. She tried to move out by the end of the month on 31 October, but was told by her landlord she would be in breach of contract if she didn’t pay rent until 10 November 2019 and maintain utilities in the apartment. “I did that, I cleaned out everything after living in this home for four years, and they are refusing to give me any of my $875 deposit for all the repairs they said they had to do,” she added. “I ended up having to pay a move-in fee, first and last month’s rent, and the rental fee for a new place. It was almost $3,000 to come up with. I’m a single mother, I don’t make a lot of money.” Gentrification and development is displacing black Atlanta residents Though many of the largest US cities have lower eviction rates than North Charleston and Richmond, cities such as Atlanta have predominantly black neighborhoods facing an eviction crisis with eviction rates as high as 40%. The city has the third highest eviction rate in the US among the country’s top 50 largest metro areas. “I’m spent. I’m tired. We’re technically homeless,” said a single black mother who also requested to remain anonymous. She was forced out of her Atlanta home in November 2019 after her landlord sold the house she was renting and is still struggling to find a new place to live. “Even with the monthly income I do make, it’s not enough because I’m losing money in rental application fees, transportation and lodging in motels.” Large-scale development projects such as the Atlanta BeltLine, a multibillion-dollar rails to trails project, are driving mass evictions in Atlanta’s south side as rental prices soar along its route. So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects Alison Johnson “So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects and because the landlords jack up the rents and have begun serial eviction filings,” said Alison Johnson, executive director of the Atlanta Housing Justice League. Her organization has developed an eviction manual to walk tenants through their rights in the eviction process. “Landlords want to raise rents as high as possible to attract higher-income people into those units.” In December 2019, housing organizers protested outside the Atlanta mayor’s office as the city is using eminent domain, where private property is seized for public use, to evict residents in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood to build a park and pond to mitigate flooding issues in the area caused by poor sewage infrastructure and overdevelopment. Tanya Washington, a law professor at Georgia State University, is one of the homeowners currently facing a lawsuit filed by the city of Atlanta to evict her from her home in the Peoplestown neighborhood. She provided emails from a city-employed engineer obtained through the lawsuit’s discovery process where an engineer states the use of eminent domain is unnecessary to build the park and pond, and Washington says the city has been provided with alternative, cheaper development plans that would achieve the same flooding control goals. “They decided to take a whole block of homes. They started demolishing homes in 2014; out of 27, there are four left,” said Washington. The remaining property deeds are currently under the ownership of the city of Atlanta. “As of October 31, 2016, we have been occupying our homes on borrowed time. At any moment they can come and evict us.” The mayor’s office declined to comment. Sign in again to post a message.
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WE ARE TECHNICALLY HOMELESS IN TRUMPS AMERICA !!
Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:23:37 2020, in response to Re: BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING.... LOL !!, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:19:20 2020. 'We're technically homeless': the eviction epidemic plaguing the US [The Guardian] ,The Guardian•February 11, 2020 were technically homeless& the eviction epidemic plaguing the US Tammie Lyle, a single mother in Richmond, Virginia, was evicted from her home in July 2019 after the rental office of her apartment complex discovered her older daughter was staying with her. “I ended up with the whole family – myself, four children, three grandkids, we had to go. We lived in a hotel for a little while, and then all split up,” Lyle said. “We all live in different houses now. We had to switch the kids’ schools and we missed a lot of time from work because we’re not together and we don’t have childcare.” Related: 'I don't have anywhere else to go': why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing She works two jobs, one at Amazon and another at a 7-Eleven store, and sometimes she has a third if she can find the extra work. Lyle’s story is just one of many when it comes to a modern American phenomenon: a plague of evictions that devastates the lives of already vulnerable families. In the US, an estimated 2.3 million Americans were evicted from their home in 2016, the latest year of available data, as rent prices around the US continue to rise while affordable housing units disappear and the legal system is weighted towards wealthy landlords, not tenants. The impact of an eviction is frequently disastrous. “Once you’re displaced from your house, everything is turned upside down,” added Lyle. Her eviction decreased her credit score, which has made it difficult to find another apartment to rent, especially in Richmond, where rents have risen by 30% in parts of the city since 2012 and eviction rates are the second highest among large cities in the US. In 2016, there were 6,435 evictions in Richmond, a rate of 11.44% of all renters in the city, roughly three to four times the national eviction rate. In Virginia, housing organizers and advocates argue the court systems are widely tilted in favor of landlords over tenants, driving high numbers of eviction lawsuits. “People can get run over in these courts and they don’t really have much of a remedy to go back and show what was wrong,” said Omari al-Qadaffi, a housing organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond. He also noted tenants are required to pay a bond worth three months of rent to appeal any court decision, no matter their income and that the city has seen the destruction of public housing and landlords refusing to accept subsidized housing vouchers. The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) manages 4,000 public housing apartments throughout Richmond, and has been criticized by housing organizers for high eviction rates. In 2017, 1,460 tenants living in RRHA apartments faced an eviction lawsuit, the highest of any landlord in the state of Virginia that year. Criticism for high eviction lawsuit rates caused the RRHA to freeze evictions temporarily in November 2019 until May 2020 and begin working with the city’s eviction diversion program. “I received an eviction notice in September 2019 for $58 because they added on some charges I wasn’t aware of. A few weeks later, I received another eviction threat saying if you don’t remove your dog within 30 days, you will be evicted, but I don’t have a dog,” said a current tenant in Creighton Court, a public housing complex managed by RRHA, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. They provided a copy of both eviction notices. The RRHA is pushing forward with plans to demolish the Creighton Court complex, which will displace more than 300 families. “They’re trying to put us out. We’re here because we need a little help. Its public housing, which means the people own it. I work, I pay tax dollars, so I’ve helped pay for public housing. Why are they making it so much harder on us?” the tenant added. An RRHA spokesperson told the Guardian in an email: “RRHA has no record of the circumstances described. However, in the event that a resident were to receive erroneous notice of a violation of RRHA’s Pet Policy, RRHA believes adequate safeguards are in place to protect the tenant’s interests.” They added that every resident who is affected by redevelopment will be provided with another public housing unit or a tenant-based voucher. ‘We lead the nation in eviction rates’ In North Charleston, South Carolina, renters are plagued with the highest eviction rate of any major city in the US, at a rate of 16.5% of all renters in 2016. “We’ve been pushing for elected officials to really address the fact we lead the nation in eviction rates, and so far the city says they don’t have money to put toward an affordable housing trust fund, but the city is getting ready to unveil an aquatics center that costs about $22.5m. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie?” said a housing organizer in North Charleston who requested to remain anonymous. In September 2019, a new housing court pilot program began in North Charleston to provide tenants with legal representation in eviction court cases, support that has been severely lacking in the city. Nationwide, the majority of tenants who face eviction lawsuits have no legal representation. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie? A housing organizer in North Charleston “We need to have a system where tenants are provided a lawyer even if they cannot afford one,” said the South Carolina state representative Marvin Pendarvis, who proposed a bill last year to improve the rights of tenants in response to high eviction rates in North Charleston. As Pendarvis pushes for legislation to improve the rights of tenants in South Carolina, residents in North Charleston still continue to face evictions, driven by gentrification and new development. A 34-year-old black single mother, who requested to remain anonymous, was evicted from her home on 10 October 2019 after renting it for four years. “The owner of my house decided he didn’t want to rent the house any more, so he gave me a 30-day notice when I was scheduled to renew my lease,” she said. She tried to move out by the end of the month on 31 October, but was told by her landlord she would be in breach of contract if she didn’t pay rent until 10 November 2019 and maintain utilities in the apartment. “I did that, I cleaned out everything after living in this home for four years, and they are refusing to give me any of my $875 deposit for all the repairs they said they had to do,” she added. “I ended up having to pay a move-in fee, first and last month’s rent, and the rental fee for a new place. It was almost $3,000 to come up with. I’m a single mother, I don’t make a lot of money.” Gentrification and development is displacing black Atlanta residents Though many of the largest US cities have lower eviction rates than North Charleston and Richmond, cities such as Atlanta have predominantly black neighborhoods facing an eviction crisis with eviction rates as high as 40%. The city has the third highest eviction rate in the US among the country’s top 50 largest metro areas. “I’m spent. I’m tired. We’re technically homeless,” said a single black mother who also requested to remain anonymous. She was forced out of her Atlanta home in November 2019 after her landlord sold the house she was renting and is still struggling to find a new place to live. “Even with the monthly income I do make, it’s not enough because I’m losing money in rental application fees, transportation and lodging in motels.” Large-scale development projects such as the Atlanta BeltLine, a multibillion-dollar rails to trails project, are driving mass evictions in Atlanta’s south side as rental prices soar along its route. So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects Alison Johnson “So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects and because the landlords jack up the rents and have begun serial eviction filings,” said Alison Johnson, executive director of the Atlanta Housing Justice League. Her organization has developed an eviction manual to walk tenants through their rights in the eviction process. “Landlords want to raise rents as high as possible to attract higher-income people into those units.” In December 2019, housing organizers protested outside the Atlanta mayor’s office as the city is using eminent domain, where private property is seized for public use, to evict residents in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood to build a park and pond to mitigate flooding issues in the area caused by poor sewage infrastructure and overdevelopment. Tanya Washington, a law professor at Georgia State University, is one of the homeowners currently facing a lawsuit filed by the city of Atlanta to evict her from her home in the Peoplestown neighborhood. She provided emails from a city-employed engineer obtained through the lawsuit’s discovery process where an engineer states the use of eminent domain is unnecessary to build the park and pond, and Washington says the city has been provided with alternative, cheaper development plans that would achieve the same flooding control goals. “They decided to take a whole block of homes. They started demolishing homes in 2014; out of 27, there are four left,” said Washington. The remaining property deeds are currently under the ownership of the city of Atlanta. “As of October 31, 2016, we have been occupying our homes on borrowed time. At any moment they can come and evict us.” The mayor’s office declined to comment. Sign in again to post a message.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Feb 11 15:27:52 2020, in response to Re: BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING.... LOL !!, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:19:20 2020.* Especially red states. What, you don't believe the New York Times all of a sudden?? You've been told over and over that the jobs and homelessness problems are in blue states and you keep denying it.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 15:45:52 2020, in response to Re: BLACK WORKERS’ WAGES ARE FINALLY RISING, posted by Dave on Tue Feb 11 15:43:18 2020.* 'We're technically homeless': the eviction epidemic plaguing the US [The Guardian] ,The Guardian•February 11, 2020 were technically homeless& the eviction epidemic plaguing the US Tammie Lyle, a single mother in Richmond, Virginia, was evicted from her home in July 2019 after the rental office of her apartment complex discovered her older daughter was staying with her. “I ended up with the whole family – myself, four children, three grandkids, we had to go. We lived in a hotel for a little while, and then all split up,” Lyle said. “We all live in different houses now. We had to switch the kids’ schools and we missed a lot of time from work because we’re not together and we don’t have childcare.” Related: 'I don't have anywhere else to go': why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing She works two jobs, one at Amazon and another at a 7-Eleven store, and sometimes she has a third if she can find the extra work. Lyle’s story is just one of many when it comes to a modern American phenomenon: a plague of evictions that devastates the lives of already vulnerable families. In the US, an estimated 2.3 million Americans were evicted from their home in 2016, the latest year of available data, as rent prices around the US continue to rise while affordable housing units disappear and the legal system is weighted towards wealthy landlords, not tenants. The impact of an eviction is frequently disastrous. “Once you’re displaced from your house, everything is turned upside down,” added Lyle. Her eviction decreased her credit score, which has made it difficult to find another apartment to rent, especially in Richmond, where rents have risen by 30% in parts of the city since 2012 and eviction rates are the second highest among large cities in the US. In 2016, there were 6,435 evictions in Richmond, a rate of 11.44% of all renters in the city, roughly three to four times the national eviction rate. In Virginia, housing organizers and advocates argue the court systems are widely tilted in favor of landlords over tenants, driving high numbers of eviction lawsuits. “People can get run over in these courts and they don’t really have much of a remedy to go back and show what was wrong,” said Omari al-Qadaffi, a housing organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond. He also noted tenants are required to pay a bond worth three months of rent to appeal any court decision, no matter their income and that the city has seen the destruction of public housing and landlords refusing to accept subsidized housing vouchers. The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) manages 4,000 public housing apartments throughout Richmond, and has been criticized by housing organizers for high eviction rates. In 2017, 1,460 tenants living in RRHA apartments faced an eviction lawsuit, the highest of any landlord in the state of Virginia that year. Criticism for high eviction lawsuit rates caused the RRHA to freeze evictions temporarily in November 2019 until May 2020 and begin working with the city’s eviction diversion program. “I received an eviction notice in September 2019 for $58 because they added on some charges I wasn’t aware of. A few weeks later, I received another eviction threat saying if you don’t remove your dog within 30 days, you will be evicted, but I don’t have a dog,” said a current tenant in Creighton Court, a public housing complex managed by RRHA, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. They provided a copy of both eviction notices. The RRHA is pushing forward with plans to demolish the Creighton Court complex, which will displace more than 300 families. “They’re trying to put us out. We’re here because we need a little help. Its public housing, which means the people own it. I work, I pay tax dollars, so I’ve helped pay for public housing. Why are they making it so much harder on us?” the tenant added. An RRHA spokesperson told the Guardian in an email: “RRHA has no record of the circumstances described. However, in the event that a resident were to receive erroneous notice of a violation of RRHA’s Pet Policy, RRHA believes adequate safeguards are in place to protect the tenant’s interests.” They added that every resident who is affected by redevelopment will be provided with another public housing unit or a tenant-based voucher. ‘We lead the nation in eviction rates’ In North Charleston, South Carolina, renters are plagued with the highest eviction rate of any major city in the US, at a rate of 16.5% of all renters in 2016. “We’ve been pushing for elected officials to really address the fact we lead the nation in eviction rates, and so far the city says they don’t have money to put toward an affordable housing trust fund, but the city is getting ready to unveil an aquatics center that costs about $22.5m. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie?” said a housing organizer in North Charleston who requested to remain anonymous. In September 2019, a new housing court pilot program began in North Charleston to provide tenants with legal representation in eviction court cases, support that has been severely lacking in the city. Nationwide, the majority of tenants who face eviction lawsuits have no legal representation. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie? A housing organizer in North Charleston “We need to have a system where tenants are provided a lawyer even if they cannot afford one,” said the South Carolina state representative Marvin Pendarvis, who proposed a bill last year to improve the rights of tenants in response to high eviction rates in North Charleston. As Pendarvis pushes for legislation to improve the rights of tenants in South Carolina, residents in North Charleston still continue to face evictions, driven by gentrification and new development. A 34-year-old black single mother, who requested to remain anonymous, was evicted from her home on 10 October 2019 after renting it for four years. “The owner of my house decided he didn’t want to rent the house any more, so he gave me a 30-day notice when I was scheduled to renew my lease,” she said. She tried to move out by the end of the month on 31 October, but was told by her landlord she would be in breach of contract if she didn’t pay rent until 10 November 2019 and maintain utilities in the apartment. “I did that, I cleaned out everything after living in this home for four years, and they are refusing to give me any of my $875 deposit for all the repairs they said they had to do,” she added. “I ended up having to pay a move-in fee, first and last month’s rent, and the rental fee for a new place. It was almost $3,000 to come up with. I’m a single mother, I don’t make a lot of money.” Gentrification and development is displacing black Atlanta residents Though many of the largest US cities have lower eviction rates than North Charleston and Richmond, cities such as Atlanta have predominantly black neighborhoods facing an eviction crisis with eviction rates as high as 40%. The city has the third highest eviction rate in the US among the country’s top 50 largest metro areas. “I’m spent. I’m tired. We’re technically homeless,” said a single black mother who also requested to remain anonymous. She was forced out of her Atlanta home in November 2019 after her landlord sold the house she was renting and is still struggling to find a new place to live. “Even with the monthly income I do make, it’s not enough because I’m losing money in rental application fees, transportation and lodging in motels.” Large-scale development projects such as the Atlanta BeltLine, a multibillion-dollar rails to trails project, are driving mass evictions in Atlanta’s south side as rental prices soar along its route. So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects Alison Johnson “So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects and because the landlords jack up the rents and have begun serial eviction filings,” said Alison Johnson, executive director of the Atlanta Housing Justice League. Her organization has developed an eviction manual to walk tenants through their rights in the eviction process. “Landlords want to raise rents as high as possible to attract higher-income people into those units.” In December 2019, housing organizers protested outside the Atlanta mayor’s office as the city is using eminent domain, where private property is seized for public use, to evict residents in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood to build a park and pond to mitigate flooding issues in the area caused by poor sewage infrastructure and overdevelopment. Tanya Washington, a law professor at Georgia State University, is one of the homeowners currently facing a lawsuit filed by the city of Atlanta to evict her from her home in the Peoplestown neighborhood. She provided emails from a city-employed engineer obtained through the lawsuit’s discovery process where an engineer states the use of eminent domain is unnecessary to build the park and pond, and Washington says the city has been provided with alternative, cheaper development plans that would achieve the same flooding control goals. “They decided to take a whole block of homes. They started demolishing homes in 2014; out of 27, there are four left,” said Washington. The remaining property deeds are currently under the ownership of the city of Atlanta. “As of October 31, 2016, we have been occupying our homes on borrowed time. At any moment they can come and evict us.” The mayor’s office declined to comment. Sign in again to post a message.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:46:04 2020, in response to WE ARE TECHNICALLY HOMELESS IN TRUMPS AMERICA !!, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:23:37 2020. 'We're technically homeless': the eviction epidemic plaguing the US [The Guardian] ,The Guardian•February 11, 2020 were technically homeless& the eviction epidemic plaguing the US Tammie Lyle, a single mother in Richmond, Virginia, was evicted from her home in July 2019 after the rental office of her apartment complex discovered her older daughter was staying with her. “I ended up with the whole family – myself, four children, three grandkids, we had to go. We lived in a hotel for a little while, and then all split up,” Lyle said. “We all live in different houses now. We had to switch the kids’ schools and we missed a lot of time from work because we’re not together and we don’t have childcare.” Related: 'I don't have anywhere else to go': why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing She works two jobs, one at Amazon and another at a 7-Eleven store, and sometimes she has a third if she can find the extra work. Lyle’s story is just one of many when it comes to a modern American phenomenon: a plague of evictions that devastates the lives of already vulnerable families. In the US, an estimated 2.3 million Americans were evicted from their home in 2016, the latest year of available data, as rent prices around the US continue to rise while affordable housing units disappear and the legal system is weighted towards wealthy landlords, not tenants. The impact of an eviction is frequently disastrous. “Once you’re displaced from your house, everything is turned upside down,” added Lyle. Her eviction decreased her credit score, which has made it difficult to find another apartment to rent, especially in Richmond, where rents have risen by 30% in parts of the city since 2012 and eviction rates are the second highest among large cities in the US. In 2016, there were 6,435 evictions in Richmond, a rate of 11.44% of all renters in the city, roughly three to four times the national eviction rate. In Virginia, housing organizers and advocates argue the court systems are widely tilted in favor of landlords over tenants, driving high numbers of eviction lawsuits. “People can get run over in these courts and they don’t really have much of a remedy to go back and show what was wrong,” said Omari al-Qadaffi, a housing organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond. He also noted tenants are required to pay a bond worth three months of rent to appeal any court decision, no matter their income and that the city has seen the destruction of public housing and landlords refusing to accept subsidized housing vouchers. The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) manages 4,000 public housing apartments throughout Richmond, and has been criticized by housing organizers for high eviction rates. In 2017, 1,460 tenants living in RRHA apartments faced an eviction lawsuit, the highest of any landlord in the state of Virginia that year. Criticism for high eviction lawsuit rates caused the RRHA to freeze evictions temporarily in November 2019 until May 2020 and begin working with the city’s eviction diversion program. “I received an eviction notice in September 2019 for $58 because they added on some charges I wasn’t aware of. A few weeks later, I received another eviction threat saying if you don’t remove your dog within 30 days, you will be evicted, but I don’t have a dog,” said a current tenant in Creighton Court, a public housing complex managed by RRHA, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. They provided a copy of both eviction notices. The RRHA is pushing forward with plans to demolish the Creighton Court complex, which will displace more than 300 families. “They’re trying to put us out. We’re here because we need a little help. Its public housing, which means the people own it. I work, I pay tax dollars, so I’ve helped pay for public housing. Why are they making it so much harder on us?” the tenant added. An RRHA spokesperson told the Guardian in an email: “RRHA has no record of the circumstances described. However, in the event that a resident were to receive erroneous notice of a violation of RRHA’s Pet Policy, RRHA believes adequate safeguards are in place to protect the tenant’s interests.” They added that every resident who is affected by redevelopment will be provided with another public housing unit or a tenant-based voucher. ‘We lead the nation in eviction rates’ In North Charleston, South Carolina, renters are plagued with the highest eviction rate of any major city in the US, at a rate of 16.5% of all renters in 2016. “We’ve been pushing for elected officials to really address the fact we lead the nation in eviction rates, and so far the city says they don’t have money to put toward an affordable housing trust fund, but the city is getting ready to unveil an aquatics center that costs about $22.5m. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie?” said a housing organizer in North Charleston who requested to remain anonymous. In September 2019, a new housing court pilot program began in North Charleston to provide tenants with legal representation in eviction court cases, support that has been severely lacking in the city. Nationwide, the majority of tenants who face eviction lawsuits have no legal representation. The question isn’t whether the city has the money, it’s where do our priorities lie? A housing organizer in North Charleston “We need to have a system where tenants are provided a lawyer even if they cannot afford one,” said the South Carolina state representative Marvin Pendarvis, who proposed a bill last year to improve the rights of tenants in response to high eviction rates in North Charleston. As Pendarvis pushes for legislation to improve the rights of tenants in South Carolina, residents in North Charleston still continue to face evictions, driven by gentrification and new development. A 34-year-old black single mother, who requested to remain anonymous, was evicted from her home on 10 October 2019 after renting it for four years. “The owner of my house decided he didn’t want to rent the house any more, so he gave me a 30-day notice when I was scheduled to renew my lease,” she said. She tried to move out by the end of the month on 31 October, but was told by her landlord she would be in breach of contract if she didn’t pay rent until 10 November 2019 and maintain utilities in the apartment. “I did that, I cleaned out everything after living in this home for four years, and they are refusing to give me any of my $875 deposit for all the repairs they said they had to do,” she added. “I ended up having to pay a move-in fee, first and last month’s rent, and the rental fee for a new place. It was almost $3,000 to come up with. I’m a single mother, I don’t make a lot of money.” Gentrification and development is displacing black Atlanta residents Though many of the largest US cities have lower eviction rates than North Charleston and Richmond, cities such as Atlanta have predominantly black neighborhoods facing an eviction crisis with eviction rates as high as 40%. The city has the third highest eviction rate in the US among the country’s top 50 largest metro areas. “I’m spent. I’m tired. We’re technically homeless,” said a single black mother who also requested to remain anonymous. She was forced out of her Atlanta home in November 2019 after her landlord sold the house she was renting and is still struggling to find a new place to live. “Even with the monthly income I do make, it’s not enough because I’m losing money in rental application fees, transportation and lodging in motels.” Large-scale development projects such as the Atlanta BeltLine, a multibillion-dollar rails to trails project, are driving mass evictions in Atlanta’s south side as rental prices soar along its route. So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects Alison Johnson “So many people on this side of town are seeing mass evictions due to these infrastructure development projects and because the landlords jack up the rents and have begun serial eviction filings,” said Alison Johnson, executive director of the Atlanta Housing Justice League. Her organization has developed an eviction manual to walk tenants through their rights in the eviction process. “Landlords want to raise rents as high as possible to attract higher-income people into those units.” In December 2019, housing organizers protested outside the Atlanta mayor’s office as the city is using eminent domain, where private property is seized for public use, to evict residents in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood to build a park and pond to mitigate flooding issues in the area caused by poor sewage infrastructure and overdevelopment. Tanya Washington, a law professor at Georgia State University, is one of the homeowners currently facing a lawsuit filed by the city of Atlanta to evict her from her home in the Peoplestown neighborhood. She provided emails from a city-employed engineer obtained through the lawsuit’s discovery process where an engineer states the use of eminent domain is unnecessary to build the park and pond, and Washington says the city has been provided with alternative, cheaper development plans that would achieve the same flooding control goals. “They decided to take a whole block of homes. They started demolishing homes in 2014; out of 27, there are four left,” said Washington. The remaining property deeds are currently under the ownership of the city of Atlanta. “As of October 31, 2016, we have been occupying our homes on borrowed time. At any moment they can come and evict us.” The mayor’s office declined to comment. Sign in again to post a message.
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman* on Tue Feb 11 16:25:49 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 13:50:43 2020.* YES
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman* on Tue Feb 11 16:26:28 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 12:41:00 2020.* I did not what?
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 16:38:21 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Tue Feb 11 16:25:49 2020.* YES THEY WANT TO CUT IT ALL OFF
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 16:38:55 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Tue Feb 11 16:26:28 2020.* YOU DID NOT CALL HIM MUHAMMAD ALI
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 17:17:19 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 16:38:55 2020.* I might be traveling to LA the last weekend of March 2021.
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 17:18:13 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 16:38:21 2020.* You are delusional.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Tue Feb 11 17:28:43 2020, in response to WE ARE TECHNICALLY HOMELESS IN TRUMPS AMERICA !!, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 15:23:37 2020.* LOL Grauniad and "technically". Fake news. The federal government does not set housing policy; that's up to the states and municipalities. And where people are homeless, Democrats dominate.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 17:47:58 2020, in response to Re: WE ARE TECHNICALLY HOMELESS IN TRUMP’S AMERICA??, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 11 17:28:43 2020.* NO THE REPUBLICANS CUT OFF ALL PROGRAMS THAT MAKE HOMELESS WORSE ITS NOT FAKE ITS FACT
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 17:48:39 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 17:17:19 2020.* OK GREAT WANT TO SEE THE LACMTA OR METROLINK ?
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 17:48:51 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 17:18:13 2020.* NAH
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 17:50:04 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 17:48:39 2020.* Both
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 17:55:23 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 17:50:04 2020.* SURE
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 18:12:01 2020, in response to TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Feb 10 12:16:02 2020.* Salaam, 56 Million Americans rely on Social Security to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. But Trump is working to gut this vital program by $30 BILLION! We need to collect as much data as possible today to develop a strong strategy to protect those families! ↓ Salaam, take our Social Security Strategy Survey by midnight ↓ [EXCLUSIVE] SOCIAL SECURITY STRATEGY SURVEY Trump is DESTROYING Social Security! So we’re developing a strategy to protect Social Security for the 56 million Americans who rely on it: STRATEGIST: Salaam Allah STRATEGIC INPUT: PENDING COMPLETE THE SURVEY NOW ➞ Salaam is selected to take our Social Security Strategy Survey by midnight on February 11, 2020 >> Thanks for your input, Congressional Black Caucus PAC
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Posted by Chicagomotorman* on Tue Feb 11 18:18:24 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 17:55:23 2020.* Is Orange Empire open that time of year?
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 18:22:31 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Feb 11 18:18:24 2020.* IT IS BUT ITS IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY LONG WAY FROM LOS ANGELES AND IT DEPENDS ON WHATS GOING ON THERE ETC......
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730* on Tue Feb 11 20:36:42 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Feb 11 10:07:20 2020.* Democrats can easily run against his false promises Actually this has riled up a chunk of Trump's base without the Dems even pointing it out. A lot of anger on the conservative side of twitter.
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Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY
Posted by AlM* on Tue Feb 11 20:56:54 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Feb 11 10:07:20 2020.* Warren + Sanders together are getting 40% in NH, despite both being near-favorite son and daughter. Hopefully the other Democrats will learn they don't need to cater to the left wing.
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Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY
Posted by Dave* on Tue Feb 11 21:12:04 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Feb 11 14:40:48 2020.* No, it was not their country.
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Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY
Posted by gp38/r42 chris* on Tue Feb 11 21:19:02 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by AlM on Tue Feb 11 20:56:54 2020.* Scary that 40% of a party's voti g electorate think far left socialist ideals are that embraceable. Scary
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Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY
Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Tue Feb 11 21:37:22 2020, in response to Re: TRUMP CUTS MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, posted by Dave on Tue Feb 11 21:12:04 2020.* VIET NAM DOES NOT BELONG TO AMERICA ITS THIERS NOT YOURS DAVE !!!!!! ROFL LOL
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