News You Can Use: Petraeus, Fast Food, and Poverty

"General Petraeus's Data is Misleading the American Public"
The National Security Network analyzes the truth behind the General's fuzzy math.
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"Limits Proposed on Fastfood Restaurants"
A Los Angeles Times analysis of the city's roughly 8,200 restaurants found that South Los Angeles (where I work) has the highest concentration of fast-food eateries. Thirty percent of adults in South L.A. are obese, compared with 20.9% in the county overall, according to a county Department of Public Health study. South L.A. also has the highest diabetes levels in the county, at 11.7%, compared with 8.1% in the county. Where is Wild Oats when we need them?! (wink wink)
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"A Sobering Census Report"
From the NY Times editorial page, and the US Census Bureau, comes this sobering report: Over all, the new data on incomes and poverty mesh consistently with the pattern of the last five years, in which the spoils of the nation’s economic growth have flowed almost exclusively to the wealthy and the extremely wealthy, leaving little for everybody else.
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