Valentine Makhouleen — interactive art director » Inequality http://www.new-media.ca Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 One drop http://www.new-media.ca/blog/one-drop/ http://www.new-media.ca/blog/one-drop/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:00:10 +0000 Valentine http://www.new-media.ca/?p=2023

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdNj0kV9P4

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Skip Schreiber, 64, gets online in his van, which is also his home, in the Bayview district of San Francisco. For his 60th birthday, he dipped into his monthly disability check to buy a laptop, connected it to his car battery, and taught himself to use it.

Read the rest on WSJ

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Tap Radio

http://tapprojectradio.org

]]> http://www.new-media.ca/blog/tap-project-radio/feed/ 0 Not addressing poverty costing Ontario $13B annually http://www.new-media.ca/blog/not-addressing-povertys-root-causes-costing-ontario-13b-annually/ http://www.new-media.ca/blog/not-addressing-povertys-root-causes-costing-ontario-13b-annually/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:33:28 +0000 Valentine http://www.new-media.ca/?p=525 “Not addressing the root causes of poverty is costing the Ontario economy about $13.1 billion annually, according to a study released on Thursday.

The study, entitled The Cost of Poverty, was conducted by the Ontario Association of Food Banks in collaboration with Canadian economists over a six-month period.”

Read more at cbc.ca

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