Mike Konczal has an excellent post up parsing out the data and ideology found on the ‘We are the 99%’ tumblr. The whole thing is terrific so you should click over there and read it and then come back… He concludes: Upon reflection, it is very obvious where the problems are. There’s no universal health […]
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This has been making the rounds: To an extent, this is true. The western, industrialized world is far richer than Africa and most of Asia and most of South America. The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia […]
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Forbes is a business magazine, and I write a lot about democracy, storytelling in politics, culture, activism, and any number of other non-business issues. But I don’t feel like an outsider here. I think I’m actually very pro-business, just maybe in a slightly different way than you might think. I believe, for instance, that a […]
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Aaron Carroll has an excellent piece up over at CNN on the truly startling, truly saddening facts about child poverty in America. Even though poverty is defined very strictly in this country – a single mom with one kid has to make less than $15,030 to be considered impoverished – a striking number of children […]
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