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• Climate action after COP15

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 109
  (A Grist photo) ======= UK Climate Campers have said this on Twitter (in their “bio” statement) - “It’s time to show our ‘leaders’ how we’re going to take action to reduce emissions ourselves. Because it’s business as usual at Copenhagen.” ——- Cascadia Brian (of Rising Tide North America) ...
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• New Labour; New Redistribution

  
  Gaian Economics — Authority: 114
  In an era when investigative journalism is a nostalgic memory and even the best political parties worry more about how they can present a policy than whether it is right, how reassuring it is to find a report that is full of good hard numbers. Such is the recent report on assets and wealth from the Office for ...
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• Senate Health Bill Provides Enormous Help To Poor

  
  STONE SOUP MUSINGS — Authority: 112
  Everyone seems to be trashing the Senates health reform bill. Thats fine, dissent is good, but I dont think we should let it blind us to the positives, such as the enormous good the bill will do for the poor and middle class. (Via Jonathan Cohn at TNR.) This bill would mean Medicaid coverage for an additional 15 ...
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• The Ten Worst Nightmares Bush Inflicted on America

  
  Politics or Poppycock — Authority: 136
  By Juan Cole, Informed Comment. Posted December 22, 2009.Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went ...
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• No sick days for swine flu sufferers

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 117
  Despite warnings from the CDC, millions Americans can’t afford to stay home when they or their child catches the flu. In this video, ABC News investigates how the H1N1 flu season is affecting students, parents and millions of American workers who could be facing the loss of pay or even the loss of their job. [...]
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• Reasonableness in pay for both the public and private sector

  
  My political blog and other musings — Authority: 137
  The view of the House of Commons Public Administration select committee that there should be a High Pay Commission is commented on by Polly Toynbee . Aptly, she points out that it is inconsistent to expect it only to look at public sector pay without reference to the private sector. The high levels of remuneration ...
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• Health Care Reform and the Value of Work

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 117
  Janet Bauer | Oregon Center for Public PolicyIn the pantheon of American values, few are more venerated than work. The esteem accorded to a strong work ethic dates from the days of the Puritans and was evident in President Obama’s recent address to the nation’s schoolchildren.But if we rightly value work, why does ...
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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

• The official Copenhagen talks: A fraudulent farce

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 109
  (That image was cropped out of a photo taken by Jody B.) ——- The COP15 talks in Copenhagen have been called “Brokenhagen” and “Failenhagen.” One write-up in The Guardian is titled “Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure.” Here is some selected material about the betrayal and ...
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• Americas Greediest: The 2009 Top Ten

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 656
  Who deserves to sit on this years list of our most avaricious? We could pick ten eminently deserving greedy straight from any big bank on Wall Street. But why spoil all the fun? Has picking a year’s greediest “top ten” ever been easier? We dont think so. We could, this year, fill an entire top ten just with ...
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• Inequality in Hamburg

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 600
  By the age of 10, most German children are tracked into a college-prep or vocational program.  “A child from a privileged background is four times as likely to reach a Gymnasium, the main route to university, as one with similar grades from a working-class family,” reports The Economist. To reduce inequality, ...
  1 week ago

• Tim Wise on state rights, slavery and white privilege

  
  culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — Authority: 533
  First of all, where has Tim Wise been all my life? I cant get enough of this mans speeches. Even when I am not 100% in agreement with his theorical framework, the lucidity and simplicity of his exposition is an amazing breath of fresh air over a rather complex and sometimes stale discussions around race, class, ...
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• "Americas decade of dread": As fewer and fewer Americans share in the boom at the top, more and more of us look at grim prospects ahead

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 600
  [ Click to enlarge. ] "The moral world that we see [in a Council on Foreign Relations poll] is the moral world of Charles Dickens. Of the elite of his day, he wrote in Bleak House, there is much good in it. . . . But, he continued, it is a world wrapped up in too much jewellers cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear ...
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• India under Globalization

  
  India in Peril — Authority: 103
  In the last 20 years of globalization of Indian Economy, it has grown from a mere $317 billion to $1.2 trillion, the fastest growth rate in the world only after that of China. This growth is principally dominated by outsourcing operations – a symbol of dependency on others which can not be relied upon on long term ...
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• Dennis Kucinich: a truth teller in Congress

  
  The Animal Spirits Page — Authority: 118
  Via:  RawStory.com Kucinich: ‘Class war is over, working people lost’ By Sahil Kapur Thursday, December 17th, 2009 -- 3:05 pm WASHINGTON -- Reflecting on the growing divide between Wall Street and Main Street, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Wednesday offered a powerful critique ...
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• Public Says Go Green With or Without a Climate Agreement

  
  Taking Note — Authority: 423
  Debate has been vigorous at the Copenhagen climate summit. We shall see if this debate leads to a meaningful global agreement on combating climate change. But it’s worth stressing that the American public wishes to see steps against climate change...
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• 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 ...
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• Ya Can’t Find Equality from the Kitchen

  
  mirabile dictu — Authority: 129
  Family structure in the United States magnifies class-based inequality and undermines the human capital of the next generation. Yet, the ideas that helped secure a Nobel Prize in economics for Chicago economist Gary Becker still provide the starting point for every discussion of the economics of the family, and if ...
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• For the first time in Lebanon, a woman h…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 498
  For the first time in Lebanon, a woman has been allowed to open a bank account. The change in banking policy that now allows women to open accounts comes after an advocacy campaign led by the Institute of Progressive Women and other groups. a
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• Why Camerons "big society" agenda would make Britain more unequal

  
  Next Left — Authority: 569
  David Camerons attempt to nuance the "cartoonish depiction of the state" set out in his Autumn party conference keynote may unwittingly turning the Conservative leader into a "confused social democrat", according to Phillip Collins and Richard Reeves, respectively Chair and Director of the think-tank Demos. Writing ...
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