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Letter to the Editor: Re-elect Governor Cuomo? Other Voices | NYTimes
OCT. 21, 2014
To the Editor:
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, one of the party’s most visibly and blatantly neoliberal leaders, is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with today’s Democratic Party.
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What If We Had Measured #Poverty Differently for the Past 50 Years? | CityLab
The Census’ Supplemental Poverty Measure paints a different picture of the poor and the social safety net.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan announced defeat at the hands of the “war on poverty“—a war his predecessor Lyndon Johnson had waged since 1967. InThe Atlantic the year after, Nicholas Lemann explained why all anti-poverty programs need not be as “ill-fated” as the ones spearheaded over those decades.
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All The Wealth The Middle Class Accumulated After 1940 Is Gone
Here’s more proof the middle class is dying.
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Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper’s Anti-Clinton Story
By Sam Levine
October 19, 2014
In the November issue of Harper’s magazine, Doug Henwood argues that Hillary Clinton, if elected president, would do little to assuage liberals’ disappointment in President Barack Obama. This is how Henwood sums up the case for Hillary’s candidacy in 2016: “She has experience, she’s a woman, and it’s her turn.” But, he says, “it’s hard to find any political substance in her favor.”
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Rachel @Maddow: On #Ebola, it’s better to know than not to know
RACHEL MADDOW 10/15/14
On Ebola, ‘It is better to know than to not know’
Rachel Maddow provides a detailed description of the pathology of Ebola, from the nitty-gritty of its symptoms to its development in a person over time, as a means to understanding the protocols for its handling and the likelihood of its spreading.
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Jared Bernstein: Full #employment, trade deficits, and the dollar as reserve currency
By Jared Bernstein
October 7, 2014
Full employment, trade deficits, and the dollar as reserve currency. What are the connections?
I’ve been looking for an excuse to scratch out a few lines about the connections between full employment, the trade deficit, and dollar policy—connections that understandably don’t jump out at everyone—and I’ve found a particularly good one.
Short Story: The women of my grandfather’s house
My earliest memories are set in the home of my paternal grandfather. Continue reading Short Story: The women of my grandfather’s house
#GOP’er #Tillis: #Dems ‘Redistributed’ Trillions On ‘De Facto #Reparations’
Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street | Salon
By Thomas Frank
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”
“There has not been nearly enough change,” she tells Salon, taking on Obama failures, lobbyists, tuition. So 2016?
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