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Income Inequality Is Hurting The Economy, 3 Dozen Economists Say
By Christopher S. Rugaber The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals. It’s hurting the U.S. economy. So says a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week by The Associated … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Economic Inequality, economy, income inequality, middle class, poor, rich, United States, wages, wealthy
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The Case Against Multivitamins Grows Stronger
By Nancy Shute When I was growing up my mom gave me a multivitamin every day as a defense against unnamed dread diseases. But it looks like Mom was wasting her money. Evidence continues to mount that vitamin supplements don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardiovascular disease, health, Multivitamin, United States, Vitamin
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Land of the Free? America Has 25 Percent of the World’s Prisoners
By Joshua Holland The United States has about five percent of the world’s population and houses around 25 percent of its prisoners. In large part, that’s the result of the “war on drugs” and long mandatory minimum sentences, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Alabama, Economist, Honduras, incarceration, justice, law, Mandatory sentencing, prison, United States
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Pennsylvania School Tries To Kick Out Two Students After Their Families Became Homeless
By Scott Keyes As if their lives hadn’t been thrown into enough turmoil when their house was foreclosed on and their family became homeless, two Pennsylvania students learned last Monday that they were no longer welcome at the school they … Continue reading
Federal Prison Crisis Poses ‘Critical Threat’ To Justice Department, Report Finds
By Ryan J. Reilly The ballooning cost of the overcrowded federal prison system is an “increasingly critical threat” to the Justice Department’s ability to fulfill its mission, the department’s inspector general said in a report released Friday, which outlined the … Continue reading
The School Shootings You Didn’t Hear About—One Every Two Weeks Since Newtown
By Brandy Zadrozny In the year since Newtown, at least 24 school shootings have claimed at least 17 lives, according to a Daily Beast investigation. Has anything really changed? In the year since 20 first-graders were shot and killed at … Continue reading
Local Government is the Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Economic Inequality
By Joelle Gamble Americans don’t believe in guaranteed equal outcomes, but we do believe in equal opportunity and the ability to achieve a decent livelihood if one works hard. Unfortunately, the United States, despite being the world’s largest economy, is … Continue reading
New York City rolling out nation’s largest free, public Wi-Fi network
By Tammy Parker The Big Apple has big plans for public Wi-Fi as it rolls out a network that will cover 95 city blocks in Harlem and provide coverage to 80,000 residents as well as businesses and visitors to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Apple, Harlem, internet, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, technology, United States, Wi-Fi, Wireless network
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Mandela and the Question of Violence
By Ta-Nehisi Coates I was right to be wrong, while you and your kind were wrong to be right. —Pierre Courtade I have the misfortune of being near the end of Tony Judt’s Postwar at a moment when of the great … Continue reading
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Tagged George Washington, humanism, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, United States
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‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’
By David Simon America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of … Continue reading →