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EDITORIALS Katrina's Children: A call to Action By Marian Wright Edelman In our new Children’s Defense Fund report Katrina’s Children: A Call to Conscience and Action, CDF documents the crisis facing thousands of young people who survived the storm only to still find themselves facing an uncertain future over seven months later. We are letting them down. This is not a time for business as usual, compassion fatigue, or moving on to the next “story of the day.” This is also not a time for corrupt or self serving leadership – political, corporate, educational, professional, or nonprofit – that hurts children and betrays public trust. Continue Reading Blackonomic$: Gas Too High? Increase The Supply By James Clingman How do we do that, you ask? Stop buying as much. How do we do that? Cut down on trips, especially those unnecessary ones. Think before you hop into your automobile and drive off to some place you really do not have to be. Many times we take our situation for granted and fail to recognize the habits we have formed. Driving is one of them, and the gas companies are making huge profits from our habitual and conspicuous consumption of their product. Wasn’t $36 Billion enough for Exxon last year? Conspicuous Consumption? Yes. A few years ago people were raving about owning one of those gas-guzzling SUV’s that passed everything on the road except a gas station. Well, now we are paying the price for our lemming-like attitude and for falling for the hype perpetrated by slick advertisement and marketing campaigns. Continue Reading