Subsistence hunting & fishing.

http://www.sigtarp.gov/reports/audit/2010/Factors%20Affecting%20the%20Decisions%20of%20General%20Motors%20and%20Chrysler%20to%20Reduce%20Their%20Dealership%20Networks%207_19_2010.pdf

Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler — were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

[D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned dealerships.

Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

"Obama official, manufacturing czar and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have been inconsistent with the President’s mandate for ‘shared sacrifice.’"

As has been widely reported, the Inspector General’s study skewered the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000 dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a recession.

Why ?

Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the nation’s 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas." Despite the fact that most of these were the only GM dealership in the area and had little competition.

Inspector General is an Obama appointee
Zodiac Man.. Can you READ ?

Almost all of GM dealerships were and are owned by white males. What are you complaining about? If the ownership and location, among other things, were considered as factors that seems fair.

It’s for a project-like what did they do, how did their lives/livelihoods change, what did they lose…? Everything I can find is about former slaves, not their owners. :/

they did loose alot
a few of them left farms

but you have to understand this

when the freed slaves started to leave, they couldn’t find a job anywhere else
on top of that, they were given no education
so they couldn’t work any where

and just because the 13th amendment states that slavery is abolished
doesn’t mean it is,
blacks were still going through alot of discriminations through black codes, literacy tests and the ku klux klan

so even if slavery had ened in the constitution, doesn’t mean the laws were upheld

so, anyways
at the end…. the slaves went back to working on farms for very very low pay!! (1 cent a week)

this is what happened, it actually took a good 100 years for the civil rights movement to pick up and what not

Not passing the course to earn a degree, and that, to earn a livelihood. Not at shopping and not at running engineering projects.

Put another way, how the knowledge of mathematics will help to transform our lives at personal level ?

Bertrand Russel has the point in THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS: ‘In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.’

I am not sure that I can answer that; an answer would imply that I know how to infuse others with the same love of mathematics I have. I think it is something you either have or don’t have. I think Russel’s quote would have the same weight if he had substituted any area of study for mathematics. It is the love of learning, and of acquiring knowledge which (to me) is important. I learned from a very wise man, however, that knowledge in and of itself is not enough. Anything you know only has value when you give it away; that is, when you can teach another.

microfinance which is to enhance rural livelihood, how is it helpful for society

Refers to institutions that specialize in making very small loans to very poor persons in developing countries. Instead of using collateral to assure repayment, these lenders harness social pressure within the borrower’s community. Originally done on a nonprofit basis, it is now being done increasingly by for-profit companies.

Helps poor farmers buy livestock, helps families create and maintain cottage industries, etc.

My husband works long hours to support us and I really appreciate that he works so I can finish my Masters. I graduate in May. We had an unexpected pregnancy (I have a condition that causes infertility, but is regulated by birth control, and even with all the odds against having a baby, it happened…..even when having been told by 3 different doctors that I was infertile AND being on birth control). So I decided to focus my efforts on becoming successful instead of being a mother. Our son is 5 months old and everything has changed. Tonight I needed to study, have 2 projects and an essay due tomorrow. My husband came home from work, played video games (we are 33 years old), and fell asleep. I told him while he was starting his video game that I needed a lot of help tonight. He said, "Sure." I think that was an automatic response, you know what I am talking about women, when the man doesn’t really hear you but makes you think he did. I have been trying to type and study all night with a baby on my lap (son is EXTREMELY high maintenance for a baby…..always has to be entertained or have a change of scenery). Husband finally came upstairs to find me in tears because I have to have this stuff done by tomorrow or my grade gets docked a huge percentage. This is my last semester of my masters, and have a high paying job waiting for me upon graduation, though we are struggling to make ends meet at the moment. He saw me in tears and told me he didn’t want to hear my crying….he was too tired to care for our son….and he cannot stay up late to help because he is solely responsible for our livelihood and has to sleep so he can work and we can eat. I guess I feel like what I am doing is unimportant to him, even though it is in his benefit to help, as my job would more than triple our household income. Is this his stress? Is it abnormal for me to think I deserve more help???
I also just asked for help, and he did take our son. Only for me to hear him yelling "Shut the F up" to our 5 month old. At which point I closed my laptop and retrieved our son from his fathers care.
"So I decided to focus my efforts on becoming successful instead of being a mother." When I stated this in the previous paragraph, I was referring to my focus when I realized being a mother my not ever happen to me. Being a mother is my number 1 focus at the moment, school is 2nd. However, that does not mean that I have to quit school, that is not an option at this point.

That is not normal sounds like he’s having trouble dealing with having a child and supporting both of you and he’s taking it out on you and the baby. Him helling at the baby to shut the f up is call domestic abuse you and the baby don’t deserve that sounds like he only cares about his self. Maybe he needs a couple day break I’d would go to a family members house for a few days and if that don’t change then it might be best if you separate for the best of that baby so he doesn’t get abuse. I’m so sorry for the way he is treating you and the baby I really hope you guys can work through this. I’ve been there I know how it feels when they treat you like that. Good luck to you and your baby.

Kirc Foundation is a small registered NGO working on two major Big issues Education and Health in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrim [K.E.E.A] Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana.

Kirc Foundation believes on a principle that together we can build and give opportunities to organizations, donors and individuals who are willing to contribute and improve the livelihood of rural communities in Africa.

What do you need an organist for?

We talk about education as the bases of livelihood, to study, to read, and to learn in the four corners of a wall., to watch the life of a teacher/lecturer and live by it. Still to be poor, rude to live in poverty.

"Education" is an observable and measurable change in a person’s behavior. If he adds 2 + 5 and comes out with 9, then someone explains to him that it is actually "7," and ever thereafter he adds the two and gets 7, he has become "educated" to a particular fact. If he continues to get the wrong answer, he has not become "educated." If he writes "your" when he means "you’re," hears the explanation, but continues to write the wrong choice at the wrong time, he has not become "educated." If, on the other hand, his behavior changes and he uses the form which is called for instead of wild guessing, he is "educated" to a particular fact. When we add up all the small behaviors which define someone’s education, such as the ability to read and write correctly, the ability to do arithmetic and get correct answers, the ability to look at problems and figure out correct choices, they are all influenced by a "change in behavior."

it is very difficult
people work for for ther daily needs as they man was working when he stone age in the forest