Recession // Current TV

You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes

But it wasn’t teachers, fire fighters, policemen, and college students that... more

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Defending Planned Parenthood: Modern Lady

If Congress thought it could eliminate Planned Parenthood's federal funding without hearing about it from Erin Gibson, then they don't know much about the feisty Texan. infoMania's "Modern Lady" correspondent takes on Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and their media mouthpieces for messing with an organization that provides women with affordable access to everything from contraception to cervical cancer screenings to great donuts. Please forward this video to your local Congressman. Or Congresslady - sorry, Erin!

For good reason, no woman has ever had the balls, moxie or delusion to claim the title of "the world's premiere basic cable expert on lady stuff."

Until now.

Meet Erin Gibson. She's freakishly tall, sort of smart, and willing to do just about anything to get a bemused chuckle.

Her segment, Modern Lady, on infoMania, is dedicated to reporting and commenting on what's happening on Planet Lady.*

*The asterisk next to "Planet Lady" is actually a typo.

For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV

infoMania is a half-hour comedy show that airs weekly on Current TV. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Caveat: Bring your own water. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.

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Recession Over Or Just Beginning? 21 "Oh Crap!" Statistics About The U.S. Economy

Is the recession over or is the economic downturn just beginning? Barack Obama and... more

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Longest Recession since WWII Officially Ends

Friday morning’s release of Q4 GDP officially put the deepest recession since... more

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Executives keep health perks while workers' benefits are cut - USATODAY.com

Corporate executives don't suffer during recession.

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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Meet the new global elite.... more

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Evicted Family Creates Elaborate Camping Story to Fool Children | The Frog Blogg

(Miami, FL – October 20, 2010)…It’s a familiar sight these days,... more

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US teen birth rate at all-time low, economy cited

The U.S. teen birth rate in 2009 fell to its lowest point in almost 70 years of... more

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Hunker Down

In these trying times, we all hang together. Here's a song by my good friend,... more

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Deutsche Bank opened a casino in Las Vegas

Deutsche Bank opened a Las Vegas casino and hotel Cosmopolitan

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Why College Matters

"America is slowly coming out of the Recession of 2007—only to find itself... more

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An unwelcome unemployment milestone

Just in time for Christmas, I am now officially a 99er.... more

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WH warns tax defeat could trigger new recession

Raising the direst alarm yet, the Obama administration warned fellow Democrats on... more

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Weekly Pulse: DADT, Vampire Bees, and Other Hazards to Your Health

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Dr. Kenneth Katz recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Health Hazards of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” This week, he penned an op/ed for RH Reality Check about his experiences treating U.S. military at an STD clinic in San Diego. Dr. Katz sees the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” rule for LGB members of the military as a huge roadblock to good medical care. He’s pretty confident that his military patients feel safe divulging their sexual histories to a civilian doctor like himself. But when those troops go overseas, they are cared for by military doctors. Technically, doctor-patient communication is exempt from DADT, but many patients don’t realize that they can tell their military doctors about gay sex without fear of reprisals (at least in theory). Dr. Katz’s patients have told him that they won’t go for recommended follow-up STD screening after they ship out because they’re afraid to be honest with their doctors. He worries about how many troops are suffering from treatable infections in war zones because they aren’t allowed to serve openly.

Food stamp use skyrockets, swordfish sales unaccountably flat

Monica Potts of TAPPED points to the alarming statistic that in the last month alone an additional 500,000 Americans went on food stamps. She notes that the right wing website Daily Caller is alarmed not by the fact that fellow citizens can’t afford food, but rather that there’s no gruel-only foodstamp program available:

Meanwhile, the conservative news site The Daily Caller is shocked, shocked, to learn that you can use food stamps to buy all manner of food. The government, apparently, doesn’t restrict you from purchasing an $18-per-pound swordfish steak from Whole Foods. But that kind of discovery, like almost everything else in the “debate” over food stamp use, is the sort of ridiculous one that comes from a person who’s never been hungry.

The Hyde Amendment

In Campus Progress, Jessica Arons and Madina Agénor call for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment for being an assault on the reproductive rights of poor women and women of color. The Supreme Court declared abortion to be a constitutional right in 1973, yet nearly 40 years later, the Hyde Amendment still prohibits nearly all federal funding for abortions. In practice, the women most affected by the Hyde Amendment are those who depend on government health care programs like Medicaid and the Indian Health Service:

Former U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), the law’s sponsor, admitted during debate of his proposal that he was targeting poor women because they were the only ones vulnerable enough for him to reach. “I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman,” he said. “Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the … Medicaid bill.”

Meanwhile, ultra-conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is calling on Congress to de-fund the reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood, Andy Birkey reports in the Minnesota Independent. In an interview with a conservative news site, Bachmann doubled down on that idea, suggesting that all of health care reform be de-funded because it funds abortions. This is not true. The aforementioned Hyde Amendment guarantees as much. Furthermore, even though health reform never would have funded abortions, President Obama signed an eleventh-hour executive order guaranteeing that health care reform would not fund abortions.

Brooklyn bees gorge on maraschino cherry run-off

Home beekeeping is the hottest new trend for health-conscious locavores. New York City recently changed the law to accommodate beekeepers in the five boroughs. Just because you live in an industrial neighborhood in Brooklyn is no reason to miss out on this sweet action, right? Well, actually, there is a catch. That nice honey at the farmers’ market tastes like lavender because that’s what those rural bees ate. What do bees in Red Hook, Brooklyn eat? Run-off from a maraschino cherry factory. The overindulgent bees “look like vampires” according to one local keeper and their honey runs bright red. Maraschino honey sounds like a delicious mash-up of high and low culture. Unfortunately, Sarah Goodyear reports in Grist that the end product doesn’t taste nearly as good as it looks. Arthur Mondella, the owner of Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, wants to do right by the beekeepers. He initially suggested putting out vats of different colored syrup to “help” the bees make rainbow honey. His proposal was not well-received by the crunchy set. Instead, he has agreed to work with the beekeepers to keep the bees out of the vats next year.

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