⑥The Robin Hood Tax

 First, the Robin Hood tax is a small collection on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the poor people in the world.

 An array of influential champions - the leaders of France and Germany, the billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and George Soros, former Vice President Al Gore, the consumer activist Ralph Nader, Pope Benedict XVI and the archbishop of Canterbury - has been attracted to the idea of a tax on trades of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments.

 Last month, thousands of demonstrators, including hundreds in Robin Hood outfits with bright green caps and bows and arrows, flooded into southern France to urge the leaders of the Group of 20 nations to do more to help the poor, including passing a financial transactions tax.

 Acting such a tax still many faces many hurdles.But, I agree this idea. I think that present economy situation is unequal. But, if it is equal, none is troubled with poverty. Even if none have huge money, I think that everyone have regularity income than economic discrepancy produces.

New York Times

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and GRAHAM BOWLEY

Published: December 6, 2011

⑤As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest

A black man, Don Buckley lost his job ― driving a Chicago bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country are being given up. When he was 34 years old, his two daughters and his fiancée have moved into the basement of his mother's house. He has had to delay his marriage...

He is one of tens of thousands of once solidly middle-class African-American government workers — bus drivers in Chicago, police officers and firefighters in Cleveland, nurses and doctors in Florida — who have been laid off since the recession ended in June 2009.

 Jobless rates among blacks have consistently been about double those of whites. In October, the black unemployment rate was 15.1 percent, in opposition to 8 percent for whites. Last summer, the black unemployment rate hit 16.7 percent, its highest level since 1984.

Such job losses have blunted gains made in employment and wealth during the previous decade and undermined the stability of neighborhoods where there are now fewer black professionals who own homes or who get up every morning to go to work.

 Blacks unjust employment is a serious ploblem. They fought unreasonable discrimination for many years. I think that different race doesn’t connect to discrimination and they are troubled very much. Race is human rights, and it is secured.. So, I insist that abolition for discrimination puts into practice.

New York Times

As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest

By TIMOTHY WHLLIAMS

Published: November 28, 2011