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New (Year) Ruminations: Lucky Among 95 Million Losers. Yep! That’s me. | Blog#42
Lucky Among 95 Million Losers: Yep! That’s me.
Continue reading New (Year) Ruminations: Lucky Among 95 Million Losers. Yep! That’s me. | Blog#42
Poor and white in affluent Orange County, CA | #Precariat on Blog#42
Conservative readers like to cite the demographic statistics for wealth in Orange County, California (OC) Continue reading Poor and white in affluent Orange County, CA | #Precariat on Blog#42
Responding to Paul Krugman on Trust and the #TPP
I was relieved after a very long period of mostly silence, interspersed with a few non-committal statements on the TPP, to read Professor Krugman’s blog post curated below. But that relief is tempered by the timing and temperature of this position statement. Continue reading Responding to Paul Krugman on Trust and the #TPP
By the Numbers: US Poverty | BillMoyersHQ
US poverty (less than $19,090 for a family of three): 46.5 million people, 15 percent
Children in poverty: 16.4 million, 23 percent of all children, including 39.6 percent of African-American children and 33.7 percent of Latino children. Children are the poorest age group in the US
CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN: Let Them Eat Cash – NYTimes
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A CHINESE millionaire tried to give $300 (and lunch) to homeless men and women in New York last week. This didn’t sit well with the nonprofit New York City Rescue Mission. The Rescue Mission offered to help with lunch, but wouldn’t cooperate in handing out cash. So midway through a meal of sesame-crusted tuna and filet of beef, some 200 homeless people discovered that they would not be getting money. Instead, the Rescue Mission would accept $90,000 on their behalf. You can imagine the anger and humiliation. Continue reading CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN: Let Them Eat Cash – NYTimes