Archive for March 2, 2010
Interactive USDA Food Atlas online
To help community leaders identify the food deserts in their area, USDA recently launched a Food Environment Atlas:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/
This new online tool allows for the identification of counties where, for example, more than 40 percent of the residents have low incomes and live more than one mile from a grocery store. Nationwide, USDA estimates that 23.5 million people, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income areas that are more than a mile from a supermarket. Of the 23.5 million, 11.5 million are low-income individuals in households with incomes at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. Of the 2.3 million people living in low-income rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket, 1.1 million are low-income.
Invitation to orgs – Sign on to suspend immigration enforcement during Census 2010 / Invitacion a organizaciones – Endose carta para suspender control migratorio durante el Censo 2010
i got something from the children’s defense fund about katrina that suggested tying reconstruction aid to a national id card, which has long been part of the right’s agenda. maybe the united nations does that internationally–i do not know. but in any case, it is interesting to read all the programs that are practical barriers to so-called immigrants finding legal employment, and it’s horrible when people have to steal social security numbers and things like that…
there was some great work by the aclu’s racial justice project on 287g and racial profiling in north carolina recently…
15th Annual 40 Hour ‘Fast’ for Worker Justice: From False Idols to Moral Vision
i just read the chapter on ithaca hours in thomas greco’s book “money: understanding and creating alternatives to legal tender.” it’s really interesting to read the theory behind it…
