by Smart City Memphis (RSS) | August 31st, 2012 11:51am CDT
by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
Photograph by Amie Vanderford
This ongoing series of photographs is intended to show the daily lives of these single mothers in order to invoke recognition of their similarities to all mothers, along with understanding and empathy from the viewer of the strengths that these single mothers possess within the challenging situations they face. My hope is that newfound empathy with these mothers’ lives will give people some pause before they condemn single mothers when discussing issues such as welfare and other politically charged hot buttons.
Demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of economics and how taxes impact the economy. Who do you think bears the greater burden from corporate taxes? It is labor. But don’t let facts get in the way of your class warfare.
Thanks, Jason. But we think there’s been a class warfare under way for 20 years, and it’s been against middle class families and workers. Unfortunately, the middle class lost and that’s why the richest 400 people in the U.S. have more wealth than 150 million of the rest of us.