Libertas Continued

BY SHANNON MORIARTY PUBLISHED APRIL 22, 2009 @ 09:20P An individual working full-time at minimum wage cannot afford the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment in any state in the U.S., according to a new study. Now more than ever, low-wage workers are facing significant barriers to making ends meet, and the lack of affordable housing just complicates matters. This explains why most low-income families are one paycheck, one sickness, or one personal tragedy away from missing a rent or mortgage payment and becoming homeless. The report, entitled " Out of Reach ", was released last week by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) . The report, in all of its detail, makes two notable observations.

Dear Citizen: I received your letter and understand your support for holding the Bush Administration accountable for the warrantless surveillance program of American citizens and the CIA's detention and interrogation programs. I strongly agree that the Bush Administration made grave mistakes while in office. The fact that President Bush went outside of the bounds of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) after 9/11 was, in my view, unnecessary and an overreach of the Executive Branch. Last year, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act to ensure that abuses like the Terrorist Surveillance Program do not occur again. While that legislation provided immunity from prosecution for private telecommunications companies that may have provided assistance to the government, Congress has taken no action to affect lawsuits against the former government employees who created or authorized the program. There are pending lawsuits now against some of these employees that are un