By abby jean on 8 December, 2010
s.e. emailed me an alert to this Atlantic post by Derek Thompson about the potential hidden costs of failing to extend unemployment insurance benefits, with a warning that I would likely ‘enjoy’ it. So I clicked through with trepidation. Rightfully so. I’ll excerpt the relevant piece here so you don’t need to reward this nonsense [...]
Posted in blaming, news, policy, poverty | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By abby jean on 16 November, 2010
Los Angeles County, where I live, is incredibly diverse, both racially and linguistically. According to the Asian Pacific American Legal Center’s 2008 report on Language Diversity and English Proficiency in LA County (pdf file), more than half of Los Angeles County residents speak a language other than English at home. “The 10 most frequently spoken [...]
Posted in policy, poverty, race | Tagged abby talks policy, language policies, wonk time
By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2010
[The scene sets with OYD, a slightly pale yet never-the-less still quite indigenous woman, sitting down to her trusty Macbook Pro, a laptop named "Lappy", who has seen better days. She sets down and opens up her "drafts" tab under FWD/Forward, where she notices that egads! she has been working on this book review for over [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture, poverty, race, Uncategorized | Tagged -ist language, ableist language, books, diability, disability and poverty, poverty, race, Sherman Alexie, stereotypes, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By abby jean on 9 November, 2010
As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I spent the weekend in Kansas City with my grandfather, who had experienced an as-yet-to-be-diagnosed health crisis and was in the hospital. (Nothing is dire and he’s expected to make a full recovery and be discharged in the next week or so.) At home in [...]
Posted in justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By abby jean on 26 October, 2010
Last time, we talked about three main areas of a policy where things can go wrong: drafting a written policy to match the envisioned goal or mission of the policy (articulation), creating an administration or structure to carry out the policy (implementation), and making sure that people are actually following the policy (enforcement). These three [...]
Posted in news, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By s.e. smith on 8 September, 2010
Last week, Hurricane Earl appeared to be bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard on the United States, and there were a number of stories about communities preparing for evacuation, or weathering out the storm. Watching the news unfold, I noted a pretty glaring absence in the coverage: Any discussion, at all, of people with disabilities. [...]
Posted in accessibility, class issues, policy, poverty, social attitudes | Tagged disaster planning
By abby jean on 20 August, 2010
We are still trying to get our heads around the massive and far-reaching effects of the massive oil spill along the Gulf Coast of the United States. It’s clearly too soon for anyone to even predict what all the effects are going to be, much less estimate the severity or significance of those effects. The [...]
Posted in activism, justice, mental health, news, policy, politics, poverty, race | Tagged gulf coast, oil spill
By s.e. smith on 10 August, 2010
The Gulf oil spill that has been capturing the news cycle in the United States for the last few months finally appears to be under control, and now we’re faced with a common problem: We have a whole lot of waste from the spill and associated cleanup, and it needs to go somewhere. This includes [...]
Posted in events, policy, politics, poverty, race | Tagged environmental racism, oil, pollution, racism
By abby jean on 5 August, 2010
(Note: this originally appeared in a modified form on my tumblr.) Vulnerability indexing is a new trend in homelessness services. It started in LA and NYC but is now being used a bunch of cities and localities of all sizes around the country. Instead of traditional outreach services, these projects use a “vulnerability index” survey [...]
Posted in accessibility, activism, blaming, intersectionality, invisibility, justice, make the world a better place, mental health, policy, politics, poverty, social attitudes | Tagged homelessness, housing first, vulnerability indexes
By s.e. smith on 3 August, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States recently released a study showing that in heterosexual communities, people living in poverty are five times more likely than the general population to be infected with HIV. For impoverished communities, where people are living above the poverty line, but not living well, people [...]
Posted in policy, poverty, race | Tagged HIV/AIDS
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