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Poverty
One Hundred KIPP Fifth Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They “Earned” Their Desks
KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting its brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled …
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Preparing a Goldilocks Economy: Getting the Minimum Wage Just Right
Saving the US economy begins with increasing the minimum wage, says economist Jeffrey Sommers.
Economics by Other Means: War, Poverty and Conflict Minerals in Africa
With support from Moscow, Washington, and the former imperial capitals no longer assured, armed groups in Africa now compete for riches in diamond mines, gold pits, oil wells, and …
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Want to Cut Food Stamp Spending? Raise the Minimum Wage
Don't cut programs for the people who need them, cut those people's need for the programs.
We Are In A Class War
The u2018Walmartizationu2019 of the US economy has created a downward spiral in wages and destroyed small businesses and communities while heightening the wealth divide that is at the root …
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The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For
What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice - in real …
A Teaser to ‘The Empire of Poverty’: The First Volume of The People’s Book Project
The truth is that if most economists understood the global economy, and knew the u2018correctu2019 choices to make, we wouldnu2019t be where we currently are.
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“Entitlements” and Our Dollar Democracy
How did it happen that billionaire farmers are entitled to their
Inequality Diminishes America’s Freedom
How free are you when you're paid poverty wages? Not very free at all.
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Rip-Off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor
The most pernicious myth in American politics holds that only around half the population pays taxes.