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    w virginia 93% non-hispanic white folk

    kentucky 86%

    arkansas 77%

    dems the facts
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    al jazeera taking a look at poor white folk in kentucky

    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2...-white-county/

    "inside America's poorest white county"

    Around the corner in a shop-turned-donation centre, 68-year-old Cleda Turner fills backpacks with food and medicine for children as part of a programme run by her NGO, Owsley County Outreach. A pair of cats sleep next to one another on the shelf behind her.

    After living in Lexington for 37 years, Cleda and her husband came back to Booneville. After working with soup kitchens and church charities in the city, she says she was saddened to find a lack of services for hungry children.

    In 2007, she registered the NGO and focused her efforts on the Food Backpack Programme. Because many children from low-income families only have access to proper meals at the school cafeteria, the programme provides them with food packs to last the duration of a weekend.

    “There’s little or no food in their homes on the weekend,” Cleda says, explaining that she and two other volunteers deliver to the local schools an average of 180 food packs for children each Friday.

    The programme hasn’t been without its challenges. When she first started, Cleda would give the children canvas backpacks full of food that they had to return at the end of the weekend. “We wanted to teach them responsibility, you know,” she recalls.

    But during the first month, she noticed that the returned bags had been chewed on by what appeared to be rats or mice. “Some of the homes don’t even have floors,” she says by way of explanation.
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    Who knew nsacpi was the biggest bigot on the board?
    Natural Immunity Croc

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    Cleda learned how prevalent methamphetamines were the hard way. A few months into the Food Backpack Programme, she found herself feeling increasingly ill. “I was achy and had headaches. I was just in the most awful shape I ever was,” she says. After a doctor told her that she had been exposed to methamphetamine residue, she started using plastic grocery bags in place of the canvas sacks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Who knew nsacpi was the biggest bigot on the board?
    Well...

    He's up there.

    But we have 57 saying America is worse than Nazi Germany.

    And Runnin is saying Trump is worse than Hitler.

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    Though Cleda considers the NGO’s efforts a success, she argues that there needs to be a structural change to address the devastating poverty and hunger gripping places like Booneville.

    “You would think America can do that, but America has forgotten about the children,” she says. “It’s getting worse, and worse, and worse … You’re going to always have your haves and have-nots in this country. It’s because there’s no such thing as equality.”
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    I know that nsacpi is no fan of freedom by his constant support of endless lockdowns... But i see that the bottom 4 states in overall freedom ranking is...

    47. NJ
    48. California
    49. Hawaii
    50. New York

    Florida comes in at #1

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    I know that nsacpi is no fan of freedom by his constant support of endless lockdowns... But i see that the bottom 4 states in overall freedom ranking is...

    47. NJ
    48. California
    49. Hawaii
    50. New York

    Florida comes in at #1
    source?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    I like the maps. Including this one.

    https://www.freedominthe50states.org/victimless

    There is something for everyone.

    cajun will be interested in this one

    https://www.freedominthe50states.org/cannabis
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    How do abortion restrictions enter the Cato Institute's freedom calculations?
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    Oof


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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Oof

    Man this trend is not their friend


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    freedom in the 50 states presented by the cato institute lol
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    do you have a problem with their rankings?

    If so, why?

    (This is where you dont answer)

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    do you have a problem with their rankings?

    If so, why?

    (This is where you dont answer)
    see post 152 for a question that went unanswered

    i am genuinely curious as to the answer...i had trouble understanding how abortion restrictions entered into their ratings for freedom
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    see post 152 for a question that went unanswered

    i am genuinely curious as to the answer...i had trouble understanding how abortion restrictions entered into their ratings for freedom
    I dont know.

    My guess is they are pro choice though

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