Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1747-1749

Forty percent of the 678,000 British Columbians living below the poverty line are working adults.
Friday, March 23, 2018
The Unsolved Riddle of Poverty Reduction
ECONOSPEAK

 If Nato was dissolved tomorrow, you’d be amazed how peaceful Europe would become. The reason for its existence – the USSR – vanished decades ago. We don’t keep up a huge alliance to protect us from the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Ottomans, or any other powers that have disappeared. So why this one? It was preserved to save the jobs and pensions of its staff. It was only expanded because American arms manufacturers were afraid they would lose business when the Cold War ended.
PETER HITCHENS: 
The 'patriotic' thought police came for Corbyn. You are next.
Daily Mail
17 March 2018 
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 Nearly half of all Disneyland Resort employees have gone hungry because they couldn’t afford to buy food, a survey found. More than one in 10 reported being homeless while working at the Magic Kingdom because of the low pay.
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43 percent of employees needed, but couldn't afford, dental care. More than two-thirds enrolled in the company’s health insurance plan said they were forced to give up other necessities in order to make payments.

Eleven percent of those surveyed—including 13 percent of employees with young children—reported having been homeless in the past two years.

A further 46 percent said they had been forced to lower their food intake or have disrupted eating patterns. Fifteen percent of Disneyland employees receive food stamps.
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“We are proud of our record as a quality employer,” Brown added. “We have created more than 4,000 jobs over the last five years—more than any other business in Orange County.”
Disneyland Workers Are Paid So Little, Many Are Hungry or Homeless
By Ewan Palmer / Newsweek via Alternet
March 1, 2018