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A Senate aspirant in Benue North-East senatorial district of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Andrew Ayabam, has said if elected in 2015, he will seek answers to what he calls the heartless and senseless military invasion of Zaki Biam in 2000.

Ayabam, who said this at a news conference in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, while making a public declaration to run for the Senate seat, added that the APC would coast to victory in the state and Nigeria in 2015.

He said, I seek to go to the centre to engage Nigeria on why my people could be so pitilessly neglected, marginalised and indeed dehumanised.

I will seek answers to all issues of our marginalisation, including why Nigeria has neither found it worthy to apologise nor compensate us for the heartless and senseless military invasion of Zaki Biam, where hundreds of our people were killed and scores of villages destroyed.

For us, we are in Nigeria to stay. We have no other country to call our own; we must certainly remain here to salvage Nigeria. However, we will not allow our people to be used as Guinea pigs in senseless military invasions and meaningless experimentation in the art of political deprivation.

The former revenue boss in the state under Governor Gabriel Suswam maintained that he had all it takes to defeat either Chief Barnabas Gemade or Suswam that might emerge the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Senate contest.

He said, In that conviction, I also realised that the only way to rescue my people and indeed Nigeria is to team up with progressives and all men of conscience to chase out the PDP.

Ayabam, who regretted that despite the contributions of the senatorial district to the development of the country, it still lacked federal presence.

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Barely a week after Democratic candidates suffered a statewide beating at the polls, Moral Monday leader Rev. William Barber will deliver a Nov. 13 pep talk to progressives in Asheville.

Organizers of the event are touting it as an opportunity to re-energize as Dr. Barber contextualizes the recent election, according to a Facebook post promoting the speech. They also write that Barber, who heads the North Carolina NAACP, will outline the next steps for the Forward Together Movement, which included a campaign from several local organizations this year to rally progressives to the polls.

Although Democrats swept races in Buncombe County, statewide the GOP maintained supermajorities in the General Assembly and toppled Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

Organizers say the Nov. 13 event is nonpartisan and the Forward Together Movement is not bound by any political party, and can work with anyone who is serious about moving our state forward and not backwards. In the Facebook post they urge people to attend to support and celebrate the victories here in Buncombe and to reflect on the changes that did not happen.

Barber will speak at the First Congregational Unitarian United Church of Christ in downtown Asheville at 20 Oak Street. The event begins at 5 p.m.

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Cheer up, liberals.

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Progressives, these days, are a gloomy bunch, and it's not just because of the outcomes of last week's election. As they see it, there's much to be gloomy about: Poverty levels are stuck, they say, with little improvements made in recent decades. What's more, according to the standard progressive line, income inequality is soaring, and back to levels last seen in the roaring '20s. And, to top it all off, middle class incomes are flat, or even falling.

But here's the thing: Each of these claims is a significant overstatement. In fact: Progressives have every reason to be celebrating right now. Why? Because by and large, things aren't so bad as progressives claim, and the reason things aren't so bad is because progressive policies are working. Medicare and Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits, tax cuts favoring the working poor, expansion of health coverage, and so onall of these policies are making Americans better off than they would otherwise be.

Poverty: Down The official poverty measure is next to useless, given that it was set in the 1960s, and fails to take account of real incomes. If we use a more robust measure, one that includes the value of government benefits and transfers and treats income taxes (and tax credits) in a plausible way, poverty has actually fallen quite sharply in recent decades:

Percent of People Living in Poverty

That decline is the consequence of successive government interventions to improve living standards for lower-income Americans. Today, government transfers and credits keep around 40 million Americans out of poverty. Seven out of eight of these people would be poor today if the safety net were only as effective as it was in 1964, according to calculations by Arloc Sherman at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Social Security alone slashes 8.6 percentage points off the poverty rate, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Poverty? Government cut that.

Inequality: Mostly in Check One of the staple progressive mantras is that income inequality is soaring, with the minority at the top vacuuming up most of the national income. But the picture is much more complex, and more positive, than that. Critically, the most dramatic figures for inequality are generated by looking at "market income"i.e. before any taxes and transfers.

Between 2000 and 2010, the biggest gains in real after-tax income were actually at the bottom of the ladder:

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