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Families Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck Need to Know the EITC Will Be There

If anyone needs certainty to plan for the future, it is those families who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Last-minute decisions often do not yield good public policy. Congress has demonstrated this repeatedly. Consider last summer's raise-the-debt-ceiling circus.

Or more recently, the midnight-hour deal to extend the payroll tax cut only for a couple of months.

Survivor Recounts Rescue from Flooded Willamette River Bank

Fortunately, the victim had a cell phone that allowed her to notify 911.

(SALEM) - Water Rescue crews from Salem Fire and other local agencies had their hands full today when a call came in from several victims trapped by rising flood waters on the Willamette River.

The Willamette River crested today at 28.5". The woman in the video below, relates her story of being caught by rising river flood waters that left her no escape route.

Urgent Appeal

Keep in mind that people need to eat every day.. not just at Holidays. So... give again!

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Christmas is fast approaching and food pantries along with “soup” kitchens across America are almost universally experiencing hardship. Not only are pantries suffering major shortages in supplies and donations, they are experiencing dramatically increased numbers of homeless and/or hungry patrons.

Bread for the World Activists Participate in Nationwide Human Circles to Protect Poor People

In Portland, activists gathered at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park near the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) for prayer.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Today at noon, Bread for the World activists participated in a nationwide effort to form “human circles” around programs that help vulnerable people lift themselves out of poverty.

Homelessness in Britain

A message to the media and press...

(LONDON) - We need to all raise awareness on Homelessness in Great Britain. As you may know the number of homeless People is increasing and nowadays many places that were still better than nothing for the night have been fenced or closed down. By chance I had to use trains recently at night and what I saw was appalling.

In the Leeds train station there even was a young girl with her mother, the mother was on a bench near her daughter who rested in a ready bed with "Hello Kitty" design - she was this young!-

The Forgotten Returnees

UNHCR’s most recent statistics show that at the end of 2010 there are some 141,000 Sri Lankan refugees in 65 countries.

(GENEVA) - A day in a village on the beautiful coast of northern Sri Lanka: a lady combing the hair of a small girl crouching at her feet. She leans over and whispers something to her husband who is sitting beside her holding on to two other children.

The scene could easily be captured on a picture postcard but if one looks closer the reality is grimmer. Many of the surrounding houses have been reduced to rubble or are heavily damaged: a reminder of Sri Lanka’s bloody decade long civil war.

Occupy Protests and Homelessness

It would do Americans well to set aside their biases for a moment and visit the protest camps.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - People, Occupy Protests and The Face of Homeless People, including mainstream news reporters, tend to play down the significance of the protests because so many of the "protesters" are homeless, often involved with alcohol and drug abuse, used to relieve the pain.

At first, I was discouraged by this scene, but kept going back to try to understand the root causes and dynamics of the protests.

Occupy Salem Organizers Hope to Maintain Vigil

Activists are told they can't camp in the public area by the state capitol, and Oregon's governor has not stepped up to offer relief.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Occupy Salem is underway and the number of activists who have moved into Wilson Park, adjacent to the Oregon state capital, is growing, as are the potential problems the group is facing trying to maintain their public demonstration.

Occupy Wall Street Targeted, But Who Is The Enemy?

Every cent on Wall Street is stolen, none of it honestly earned.

(CINCINNATI ) - Our first real sign of political violence was during the disturbance at the Smithsonian when Patrick Howley of the nocon rag, American Spectator, led an attack of agent provacateurs on the Smithsonian.

Our thanks to Charlie Grapski for catching Howley, one of many preparing to push peaceful protest into political violence on behalf of corporate greed.

Mainstream Media Biased Coverage of `Occupy Wall Street` Demonstrations

Our veterans’ community is 27 million strong. Let your voice be heard. Our nation is at stake. Jeff Gates – (Author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide).

(MELBOURNE, Aust. ) - It has taken a while for mainstream media to cover the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. What took them so long?

Is the media spinning the why and wherefore and main purpose of the demonstrations? Now three weeks into the protests has the coverage begun, or has the world, or a window of it, come to them?