____ (2022-09-23). Xi extends greetings ahead of farmers' harvest festival. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

____ (2022-09-23). Decade-long efforts to safeguard cross-Strait peace and stability, promote China's reunification. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has effectively safeguarded peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and advanced the process toward the reunification of the motherland over the past decade.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-23). White House Says Migrants 'Fleeing Communism'—Plus, Toxic Lead In Chicago Water. thedissenter.org Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola had a limited amount of time for this week's episode. Rania was in New York to cover the UN General Assembly meeting, where a number of Latin American leaders condemned US imperialism. | Rania and Kevin talk a bit about some of the speeches and also respond to Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying the migrants being flown by Republican governors to blue cities are "fleeing communism" in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Staff (2022-09-23). Decorations are awarded for the anniversary of the CDR, with the presence of Díaz-Canel. en.cubadebate.cu With the presence of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, the National Directorate of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) celebrates in Havana the act of decorations in salute to the 62nd anniversary of the cederista organization. The ceremony, in the El Laguito Protocol Hall, recognizes the work of outstanding members and groups in the fulfillment of their tasks, with relevant revolutionary trajectory and loyalty to the Homeland.

_____ (2022-09-23). Poverty Is A Public Policy Choice. popularresistance.org It should not have taken a pandemic to realize poverty is a public policy choice. | Public investments in safety net programs continue to be extremely effective poverty reduction tools, as newly released Census income data show. Government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. Because of expansions to programs like unemployment insurance benefits and the child tax credit, poverty rates were actually lower in 2021 than they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The poverty reduction achieved through expanded social insurance programs highlights how much policymakers' choices can…

Elise Gould (2022-09-23). After Expanded Child Tax Credit Slashed Poverty, Letting It Lapse Was Enormous Mistake. commondreams.org All in all, child poverty was the lowest on record in 2021, largely due to key expansions of the Child Tax Credit. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-23). Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism's positive thinking cult. peoplesworld.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided. It argued that the cult of "positive thinking" was putting …

WSWS (2022-09-23). Arriva London North bus drivers to strike indefinitely from October as Unite prevents city-wide pay fight. wsws.org The role of the Unite leader Sharon Graham as British capitalism's chief industrial fire fighter is coming into sharp focus.

Olivier De Schutter (2022-09-23). A Welfare System Built to Exclude Will Never Reduce Poverty in the US. commondreams.org To fix its broken welfare system, the U.S. must move away from its fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of people in poverty.

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Deweylaura (2022-09-22). Stop using migrants as pawns in your racist games! cpusa.org The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) strongly condemns the interstate transfer of migrants seeking asylum. For the past several months, anti-immigration Republican governors have been sending migrants, through deceit and coercion, to northern states and Washington, D.C. They are cruelly using human beings as pawns to score political points. This is being carried out by …