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What To Do About Income Inequality?
P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. —
Authority: 481
one nation ... indivisible, a cartoon about quality of education by social class ( source , more Herblock here ) What to do about income inequality? Another, prior question is of course why we think income inequality is a problem at all. If you want to read about that, go here or here first. So I assume that ...6 days ago -
Why Does Santa hate poor kids? (Seven shopping days to Christmas )
Angry Bear —
Authority: 616
by Bruce Webb I posted the below last Christmas Eve. Which was too late to actually discuss the issue. People decry the commercialization of Christmas, which is fair enough. And on econoblogs we discuss income inequality a lot, plus we wonder why working class people simply accept the logic of "no poor person ever ...1 week ago -
What We Need
Just Above Sunset —
Authority: 126
On Wednesday, December 16, it was hard to see that there was anything else to talk about but Joe Lieberman and how he had decided the way healthcare should be reconfigured in America, as he had the one and only mother of all swing votes, and a giant chip on his shoulder and the mother of all grudges against anyone who ...1 week ago -
Inequality
Alexandria —
Authority: 150
Mark Thoma recently wrote a very nice piece citing Bruce Bartlett on income inequality. Key quotes… Implicitly, liberals tend to believe the pie is fixed. But, generally speaking, it isn’t. A rising tide does tend to lift all boats even if those at the top get lifted a lot more. But Conley is also right to ...1 week ago -
A Little More Klein
King Politics —
Authority: 133
I promise you that my whole blog wont simply be a riff from Ezra Klein, but Im short on time, and he always posts interesting stuff. So, here goes. Conservatives that were tough on crime in the 80s and 90s need to do something constructive to solve over-crowding and high recidivism rates today. Conservatives and ...1 week ago -
Human Rights Facts (170): Poverty and Economic Growth, Ctd.
P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. —
Authority: 481
As stated in a previous post on the same subject, when a country achieves a certain level of economic growth – or, more precisely, rising levels of GDP per capita because economic growth as such can be the result of rising population levels – it is assumed that this reflects a higher average standard ...1 week ago -
The Great Recession and Class Warfare
The Confluence —
Authority: 617
There are several Bloomberg.com articles today that show the growing discomfort among the middle and working classes with the bonus class. Here are some interesting results from a survey conducted December 3 -7. It seems that we may be on the verge of taxing the folks that get a disproportionate share of ...2 weeks ago -
Avoiding Societal, Economic, and Ecological Collapse
The Sustainable Dwelling Blog —
Authority: 91
“A society has collapsed when it displays a rapid, significant loss of an established level of sociopolitical complexity.” – The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter “Any society that displays broad increases in most measures of capital production coupled with signs of serious depletion of key ...2 weeks ago -
Human Rights Quote (148): Some of the Causes of Wealth Inequality, Ctd.
P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. —
Authority: 481
We had two previous posts on the causes of wealth inequality here and here . (If you want to know why we think this is a human rights issue, go here or here first). This is another quote identifying some of those causes: Part of the increase [in inequality during the last decades, particularly in the U.S. ...3 weeks ago -
Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (65): Santa Claus Discriminates
P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. —
Authority: 481
‘Tis the season again: (forgot where I got this from; sorry) More on poverty here , and on income inequality here , here , and here . More on Christmas and human rights (yes, why not?) here (specifically on the “war on Christmas”). More political jokes & funny quotes here . Posted in ...4 weeks ago -
U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought
SF Gray Panthers —
Authority: 125
The Business Insider, September 30, 2009 U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought Posted using ShareThis The newest economic inequality numbers, which ran counter to the expectations of almost all experts , are frightening. The Associated Press released an article titled, US ...4 weeks ago
