Friday, July 24, 2009

still po

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"God's work isn't done by God. It's done by people."
~Ani DiFranco
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From:
A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare
thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1485
pages 185-9
...Throughout much of our history, to be poor was a crime...But this is not just a feature of the American past: there are now some 750,000...employed in...prisons...second largest employer in the nation if it were counted among the Fortune 500...paid as little as 20 cents an hour...An enormous range of American companies have used prison labor, including Lexus, Boeing, Honda, Konica, Microsoft, TWA, Toys 'R' Us, IBM, Dell, AT&T, Starbucks, Nintendo, and Victoria's Secret...
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