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college, and then Congress is saying that these people don’t belong here, that they’re illegal, that we should deport them . . . I didn’t understand, as someone who was very young, and suddenly being accused or made to feel like I didn’t belong in America . . .” Carlos and Catherine and their youth network participants inspired us all. They and the students they work with are a testimony to the difference one person can make, no matter how young or old. The members of the United We Dream Network have never had the right to vote. However many political people who are afraid of the enormous potential power of young people of all backgrounds who do
have the right to vote have made young people one of their targets in voter suppression efforts that threaten voting rights and democratic processes across our country. States are adding new photo ID and residency laws and laws restricting early voting and pre-registration that all make it harder for young people to vote—including college students who may carry college IDs that are no longer allowed, or who may need to vote in the state where they attend school but are not considered “residents” under new restrictions, or in their home state on a day other than Election Day. We can’t allow these negative undemocratic efforts to succeed. Young people and all of us need to speak out loudly against voter suppression in every form. Young people also
can help with voter registration, get out the vote campaigns, poll watching, and other parts of the electoral process. They and all of us must be committed to using the power we have and never let hurdles and negative policies passively shape our lives. Like Carlos and Catherine and all their courageous Dream partners, we too can and must be agents of change. w Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
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Muhammad continued from Page 23 are folks better off today than they were four years ago, when the economy began to tumble into the dumpster, he scores his political points, because most folks have to say no. When President Obama took office, he reminds us, the country was hemorrhaging
800,000 jobs a month. Millions of jobs were lost. And even as the economy adds an anemic 95,000 jobs per month – all in the private sector, because Tea Party, slash-and-cut politicians are forcing more and more layoffs in the public workforce – job creation is not enough. At least 14 million people are unemployed. Another 11 million are under-employed.
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realize that through approved lenders the SBA has guaranteed more than $80 billion in loans to more than 150,000 businesses and worked to bring 1,000 community banks back to SBA lending. If you’re reading this, it means that you’ve accepted your own responsibility for helping to make this ongoing relationship work. Wherever you are – North, South, East or West – seek out your local SBA office and put them to work. If you’re serious about doing all you can to make your business competitive, you’ll find that your local Small Business Development Center or other SBA service provider is committed to aligning you with
the resources needed to grow your enterprise. We’ll keep pushing too! Our service on the SBA’s Council on Underserved Communities (CUC) gives us ready access to thought leaders and on-theground experts from across the country who all have their own reasons for helping the SBA be more responsive to ALL small businesses. The USBC and the SBA both recognize that any success earned as a result of this new partnership will be because we both realize it’s a two-way street. We’ve done our part – now it’s time for you to do yours. Understand? w Ron Busby, Sr. is the President of the U.S. Black Chamber, Inc.
But the Republicans are asking the wrong question in truth. Because if they asked are CEOs – the lousy managers and culprits who are responsible for the Great Recession – are CEOs better off than they were four years ago, there would be a deafening silence because no one would want to answer that question in truth. Even as average worker productivity – the amount of “widgets” workers produce in a standard period of time – even as worker productivity has increased exponentially over the last 30 or so years by a whopping 725 percent, worker pay has only increased a meager 5.7 percent. The gap between CEO
pay and worker pay has grown from 18-to-1 in 1965, to 237to-1 in 2011, this according to a report released Sept. 11 this year by the Economic Policy Institute. So in reality, the “are you better off ” question cannot be fairly answered yes by average voters for more than a generation, because wages have frozen, not even keeping up with inflation. But Gov. Romney continues to frame the question in the four-year time frame, in the same way President Ronald Reagan did in his contest against incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. But for the crowd, who like Gov. Romney are in the top
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1 percent of the population, rather than the bottom 47 percent as he sees them, the folks who like Romney who have wives who help the domestic economy by driving “a couple of Cadillacs;” the crowd who have elevators for their many cars, while the rest of us get the shaft, for that crowd, they are much better off, but unfortunately we’ll not hear the question asked that way. Framing the question about how are the CEOs doing would, in Gov. Romney’s view, amount to “class warfare,” while blaming 47 percent of the population as moochers and freeloaders is not class warfare. Go figure. w www.washingtoninformer.com