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Nuns on a Bus Subvehiculate Romney



Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby

Nuns On A Bus: Romney’s 47 Percent Comments Show ‘He Has No Idea How Hard It Is’ To Be Poor
The leader of the Nuns On A Bus tour that has criss-crossed the nation highlighting the effect the House Republican budget would have on low-income Americans said Monday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent comments about the “47 percent”“show that he is “out of touch” and “has no idea how hard it is at the margins of our society.”

The Nuns tour, which hit nine states earlier this year, was in New York to protest the House GOP budget authored by Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Even before he chose Ryan as his running mate, Romney supported the Ryan budget, which makes a majority of its spending cuts from programs that benefit the poor, including food stamps, Medicaid, and other assistance programs.



Newly Unemployed Woman Enjoys Equal Pay For First Time In Career
In a historic development for gender parity in the American workplace, recently laid-off consultant Paula Saunders, 32, is at last earning an income identical to that of her unemployed male counterparts. “Right now, I’m earning the same amount of money for the same amount of work as [former coworker] Greg [Lowell], who, just like me, started in 2004 and was laid off last week with no severance package,” a visibly proud Saunders told reporters Monday while sitting on her couch at two in the afternoon.
 
How to Vote in Your State

Start Here: gottavote.com. It will bring you to a web page run by the Obama campaign with information on what you need to do to vote in your state including deadlines for registration and registration forms.

Don't assume that you know the rules for this year's election! Your Vote Matters.



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