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• U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  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 ...
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• FM newswire for 19 November – news you can use

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom. Links to interesting news and analysisQuote of the Day – seeing America more clearly from a distancePlus, an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  After 8 years of war, somebody asks about the bills:  “High Costs Weigh on Troop Debate for ...
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• Human Rights Quote (147): Poverty and Single Parents

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  children in single parent families in the US ( source ) Almost 30 percent of children [in the U.S.] now live in single-parent families, up from 12 percent in 1968. Since poverty rates in single-parent households are roughly five times as high as in two-parent households, this shift has helped keep the poverty rate ...
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• America Regrets We’re Unable to Lunch Today

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 751
  So, the nation’s weightiest campaign arms dealers waltz about the Big Easy talking like Emily Post and asking the rest of us to put our napkins in our laps. That’s the news from New Orleans, where James Carville and Mary Matilin hosted a gathering of talons and fangs called “Taking the Poison Out of ...
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• Shrink rich-poor gap, save 1.5m lives, say researchers

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 684
  Caution: a wide gap between rich and poor could be hazardous to your health. Thats the conclusion of a meta-analysis of studies that attempt to determine the connection between income inequality and overall health. The researchers who conducted the study estimate that reducing the income gap in the worlds most ...
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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (21): Misleading Averages

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  Did you hear the joke about the statistician who put her head in the oven and her feet in the refrigerator? She said, “On average, I feel just fine.” That’s the same message as in this more widely known joke about statisticians: statistician drowning in a pond with an average depth of 3ft ( source ) And ...
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• Reid Mulls Medicare Tax Increase for High Earners

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Acting in secret, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, put together a package that includes tax increases on the wealthy to finance health plans.
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• An opportunity to look in the mirror, to more clearly see America

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Two of the most valuable magazines I read are the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.  They give me a breath of view that I’d never have otherwise, with analysis of books I’d love to read but never will find the time to do so.Here’s an example, important information for [...]
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• Twenty Years After The Wall Came Down: Rethinking The Myth of Unfettered Capitalism

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 438
  It is said that societies that do no know history are doomed to repeat it. In some sense then it is fitting that today, November the 9th, will pass in relative obscurity for most Americans.
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• Human Rights Quote (146): Some of the Causes of Wealth Inequality, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  ( source ; more Herblock , more on “ split-level living “) Regular readers know that we often post about income inequality (which is a proxy of wealth inquality). Here ’s an overview. Although income inequality, contrary to some other kinds of inequality , isn’t a human rights violation as such (there’s ...
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• Green Shoots. For Whom?

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 646
  Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. Productivity increased at a 9.5 percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2009, the largest gain since 2003. The Associated Press called it “ sizzling. ” The New York Times said we “ ...
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• Teachers candid Washington Post column casts more heat than light on the plight of Black students

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 110
  By Ronald Chennault Guest Contributor Patrick Welsh’s op/ed colu mn   in The W ashington Post  earlier this month getsoff to a bad start—a very bad one.    For starters, the piece’s very title ("Making the Grade Isnt About Race. Its About Parents.") signals where Welsh is headed, asit ...
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• DOJI: New Lows! New Lows!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  The Market had it’s best rally since 1938… I thought we could look back at the rallies during the Great Depression Bear Market (1929-1932): Nov 1929 - April 1930 (5 months rally), Dow Jones 200 to 300: +50% June 1930 - Sept 1930 (3 months rally), Dow Jones 210 to 250: +19% Dec 1930 - Feb 1931 (2 months rally), ...
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• Echoes of another great crash — and the lessons we refuse to learn!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundeconomywithjontalton/2010153841_echoes_of_another_great_crash.html Top of the News: This is the anniversary of Black Monday, the day in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. The Dow saw a record drop and things only got worse as the week progressed (there was a ...
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• Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  "(G)rowing income inequality is a cancer that is attacking both the economy, and the social and political fabric of our society. A look at economic history makes several things clear. ... The creation of a democratic society, built on egalitarian principles, is the only real systematic means of assuring that the ...
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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (17): The Correlation-Causation Problem and Omitted Variable Bias, aka “Jumping to Conclusions”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  correlation vs causation ( source ) Some more detailed information after my casual remark on the correlation-causation problem. Here’s a fictitious example of what is meant by “ Omitted Variable Bias “, a type of statistical bias that illustrates this problem. Suppose we see from Department of Defense data ...
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• When Managers Manage the Data

  
  Serious Implications — Authority: 113
  Educator and writer Peter Ryley has a fine post over at Fatman on a Keyboard about how easily, and deceptively, data can be manipulated to support whatever policy management may want to enforce. His post provides a clue as to why the managers, though ignorant of the technical aspects of the business, get paid a ...
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