Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): On the Plight of Ordinary Faces

One of our favorite images in our founders' Archives we have the pleasure to call upon is this image courtesy of Vala Afshar--the message is about being thankful and appreciative no matter what.  As our team was assessing our World, we ran across this courtesy of the team at The Marshall Project which was bothersome: 

Detained for debt. Imagine being sentenced to a dollar amount, not a period of time, and working off your debt at a crummy job paying less than the federal minimum wage. Welcome to Mississippi’s “restitution centers,” where people spend their days shuttling between prison and their jobs at fast-food joints and chicken processing factories. Room and board, behind barbed wire, is deducted from their meager salaries. The people in these debtors’ prisons say the worst thing is not knowing exactly how long they must labor before being set free. Our investigation was co-published with Mississippi Today, USA Today, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, along with several other local newspapers around the state.

As we went to press with the notations at hand, this was picked up courtesy of the team at Common Dreams:

'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare by Jon Queally, staff writer "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage."