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Grandmother Who Stole to Feed Five Grandkids Faces Prison
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA 67-year-old widow struggling to feed her five grandkids may now be going to prison for Social Security fraud she claims was necessary to keep her family afloat. Mary Alice Austin lives in Detroit and has custody of her grandchildren: four from her daughter, who's battling drug addiction and couldn't care for them herself, and one child from her son, who's been in prison for the past 20 years. As a nursing home aide, her salary of $8,000 to $10,000 a year wasn't enough to cover the family's expenses. So she broke the law. Austin is being sentenced on Friday for Social Security fraud. Court ...
Nun-Doctor Spends Life Serving Poor in Deep South [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsLow-cost medical care is hard to come by in the Mississippi Delta, but for almost 30 years, Dr. Anne Brooks -- also known as Sister Anne -- has been answering the prayers of poor people seeking help, "NBC Nightly News" reports. ...
Wisconsin Protests: Far From the Madison Crowd
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Opinion: GOP Budget Cuts Will Cost Us in the Long Run
By not in system - AOL NewsIf human capital is the wealth of nations, the House GOP's proposed federal budget will leave us poorer. Economists know that what separates wealthy and poor countries is not simply their natural resources like oil and minerals, but their human capacities, like initiative and ingenuity. Many Americans fear that our status in the world is slipping. Another View on Spending Cuts Who Has the Courage to Lead on Spending Cuts? -- Gretchen Hamel, executive director, Public Notice In that context, the last thing we should do is accept the GOP's proposed federal budget ...
Florida Homeless Advocates Claim 1st Amendment Right to Meet, Eat in Park
By Mark I. Pinsky - Politics DailyORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Supreme Court, in its controversial 2010 Citizens United decision, ruled that corporations enjoy the same free speech rights as individuals when it comes to political advertising. With the Court's 5-4 imprimatur, businesses, billionaires and groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce poured piles of cash into last year's mid-term elections, resulting in significant gains for Republican candidates. This week, a federal appeals court in Atlanta is considering this issue from the other end of the socio-economic spectrum: Does the First Amendment extend to ...
Teach for America Answers Obama's Education Call
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's recent State of the Union address called for more young people to join the effort to close the vast achievement gap that exists in the United States. It turns out that Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach for America, had been ready for the president's call for 20 years. For two decades, Teach for America has been recruiting elite college graduates to work as teachers in low-income communities that face educational challenges. Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp, seen here in 2008, says, "We need transformational change" in ...
Kids Can Save the Children With Valentines
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsSmall hands drop pink-sceptered princesses and red-hearted racecars into valentine bags every Feb. 14. The annual school tradition encourages children to pause mid-school year and recognize the kids around them. Mark Shriver and Julianne Moore want to extend that simple act, and are encouraging kids to use Valentine's Day cards to reach beyond their classrooms and help the more than one in five American children living in poverty. Actress Moore, next onscreen this summer in the comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love," spearheads the nonprofit Save the Children's annual card effort. Five winners from ...
Opinion: Coping With Killer Facts
By not in system - AOL NewsAs the World Economic Forum gathers at Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss "Shared Norms for the New Reality," I find myself wondering how we keep coping with the shared norms of a very old reality. I don't want to depress you or anything, but here we go ... 80 percent of humanity lives on less than $10 a day, 50 percent on less than $2.50 a day. (A Japanese cow gets $7 of subsidies a day.) One billion people -- or one in six -- live in slums, and 1 billion children -- one in two -- live in poverty. Up to 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. 2.6 billion people lack basic ...
Sixth-Grade Philanthropist Offers Grant to Encourage Gardening
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsSixth-grader Katie Stagliano knows how multiply. She turned a 40-pound cabbage from her garden into part of a meal for 275 people at a Charleston, S.C., soup kitchen. She turned that single experience into Katie's Krops, a nonprofit that has grown thousands of pounds of fresh produce for soup kitchens and other organizations helping people in need. Katie wants children in other states to grow their own philanthropic gardens. "It is my dream to have a vegetable garden in every state to feed those in need," she told AOL News. "To make that possible in 2011, I am offering a Katie's Krops ...
Opinion: Empowering Women -- A Path to Prosperity
By not in system - AOL NewsIn many ways 2010 was the year of women in American politics: Female candidates were among the most visible in the midterm congressional elections, and more women became governors than ever before. In our country, women have a prominent voice in the debates that matter: political, economic and social. But in much of the developing world the story is different, as a recent report funded by Britain's Department for International Development makes clear. In these countries, women often lack essential legal and social rights, such as the right to own land or access credit on the same terms as ...
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