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Week ending Friday April 29, 2011       Weekly Highlight: On Ass-Backward Priorities: The Recession Is the Fault of Foster Children and Their Hoity Toity Clothes by Abby Zimet This Week's WTF News: Michigan's GOP lawmakers want to close a $1.4 billion deficit and fund $1.8 billion in business tax cuts. They propose to do this by cutting disability assistance, early childhood funding, indigent burial expenses and requiring foster children to spend their $79 clothing allowance only at second-hand stores. This might save as much as $200,000, and thus our national economy and the world as we know it. Sorry but we're speechless. "Give me a break." - Gilda Jacobs, president of the Michigan League for Human Services. From all of us at Common Dreams - A huge thank you to all who contributed to the Spring Campaign!!  With your help Common Dreams will continue to survive and move forward, bringing you news and providing perspective from the leading progressive thinkers and activists who are shut out of the corporate media. We can't do it without you! Our Weekly Most Read Views... Chris Hedges: The Corporate State Wins Again Johann Hari: Donald Trump's Lunacy Reveals Core Truth About the Republicans Jim Hightower: From Democracy to Plutocracy Will Hutton: The United States Faces a Crisis Not Seen Since the Depression Glenn Greenwald: President Obama Speaks on Manning and the Rule of Law Ray McGovern: Surprise, Surprise! Iraq War Was About Oil Rania Khalek: Today Detroit – Tomorrow, Every City in America Danny Schechter: Why Wall Street Is Winning Laura Flanders: Let’s Admit the Truth About American Royals Glen Ford: Michigan’s “Emergency” Financial Regime: What Fascism Looks Like Our Weekly Most Read Headlines... Democracy vs. Profit is Central Issue in Takeover of Benton Harbor, Mich. Chained Ethnic Studies Students Take Over School Board in Tucson White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest Venezuela Institutes Windfall Oil Tax to Support Social Programs, Education Analysis: Banks Play Shell Game with Taxpayer Dollars Chernobyl Survivor Warns of 'Bombshell' in Japan Supreme Court Rejects Class-Action Arbitration 'Uncut' Activists Claim Purge of Facebook Pages Are US Floods, Fires Linked to Climate Change? Vermont Senate Gives Initial Approval to Single Payer Care Home About Us Donate Sign Up Archives Video Highlights... Daily Show: Exclusive - Bernie Sanders Extended Interview Thomas Frank: What's the Matter With Wisconsin? Daily Show: Exclusive - Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview Andrew Bacevich: Serious Thinking About US Military Action Zoe Weil: The World Becomes What We Teach Founded in 1997, CommonDreams.org is an Internet-based progressive news and grassroots activism organization. We are nonprofit, independent and nonpartisan. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. © Copyright 1997-2011 You are subscribed to Common Dreams as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe