| Mar 20, 2013 | Economy / BusinessInequality hurts us all. Imagine if you could go back 45 years to 1968. That year, after three decades of creative policy from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal through President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, the United States was one of the...
| Feb 20, 2013 | Economy / Business“In the wealthiest nation on Earth,” President Barack Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” Right! Not only does his call to raise America’s minimum wage put some...
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| Sep 10, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s time we ditched the term “internship.” The word’s greatest value to employers resides in its vagueness. Take, for example, the production of the film Black Swan, for which I worked as an accounting clerk and a post-production assistant,...
| | Economy / BusinessWhen President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in January 1964, the poverty rate was over 19 percent. By 1972 it had fallen to less than 12 percent, and it stayed there for most of the 1970s. Anyone who says we lost the war on poverty is flat out ignoring...
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