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• Global Inequality, Workplace Deaths Increase—No Coincidence

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
  Two new reports paint a sobering picture of what growing global inequality really means. Not only are wages continuing to drop, lowering the standard of living for millions of workers and increasing the wage gap, but evidence is emerging that rising inequality can be bad for your health. First, the International ...
  10 hours ago

• Anger in Marriage II: Fear of Compassion

  
  Anger in the Age of Entitlement — Authority: 91
  One of the clichés of pop psychology is that anger is the most complex emotion. Actually, anger isnt that complicated. Although weve developed convoluted ways of thinking about it, its really a simple response to a perception of vulnerability, threat, and entitlement. Compassion, on the other hand, can get really ...
  14 hours ago

• Aw Hell No

  
  NYCweboy — Authority: 513
  Stunned into relative silence, it took a day or so to let the anger find its way to the surface. Now Im just furious. The idea that Democrats in the House just eliminated access to reproductive... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  19 hours ago

• Something Beautiful?

  
  The CBE Scroll — Authority: 103
  Imagine a sanctuary filled with teachers and students of various ages singing:             “It’s the child on his wedding day,              It’s the mommy that gives him away,              Something beautiful” A child on his wedding day… given away . Pause for a ...
  1 day ago

• An opportunity to look in the mirror, to more clearly see America

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 557
  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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• A Do-It-Yourself Giant Does It to Workers

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 657
  Amid double-digit joblessness, two top U.S. corporations cut still another mega merger deal that enriches execs and tosses workers, by the thousands, out onto the street. You don’t have to be a high-flyer in high finance to get a kick — and a fortune — out of wheeling and dealing. Greed and grasping, we ...
  1 day ago

• Transforming American Medicine

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 801
  Robert Frank is relatively optimistic that American medicine can be transformed away for our current fee-for-service model into something more like the Mayo Clinic: Another factor militating against quick expansion of the Mayo model is that many current doctors chose their profession hoping to earn lucrative pay, ...
  1 day ago

• Twenty Years After The Wall Came Down: Rethinking The Myth of Unfettered Capitalism

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  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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• Is a Mini Skirt Grounds For Expulsion?

  
  College Candy — Authority: 661
  Last month, 20 year old Geisy Arruda was expelled Bandeirante University in Brazil. What would cause someone to be expelled from a university? Did she cheat? Did she vandalize? Did she hurt someone? No, Geisy incited a mass riot among her fellow students . For showing up to school wearing a mini skirt and “heavy ...
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• Health care bill: would Stupak pass if we had more women?

  
  Women and Politics — Authority: 492
  This weekend, the House narrowly passed a health care reform bill after delivering a huge blow to women’s reproductive health in the Stupak amendment—thus demonstrating again how badly we need... This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics for the full post!
  1 day ago

• The Shriver Report – A Woman’s Nation: Why media representation matters

  
  A B O U T - F A C E --- blog — Authority: 116
  An earlier version of this article was previously posted at AAUW’s blog, Dialog . The Shriver Report – A Woman’s Nation (A Study by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress) includes a chapter entitled “Where Have You Gone, Roseanne Barr?” , which discusses more than the offensive ...
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• Domhnall Macauley: Excellence in Practice. RCGP Annual National Primary Care Conference.

  
  BMJ — Authority: 496
  Are you an apple, a pear, or even a melon? Metabolic risk is less if you have the body profile of a pear rather than an apple. If you are shaped like a melon, it is definitely time for a serious diet. You may not have noticed, however, that you are now one of the [...]
  1 day ago

• Human Rights Quote (146): Some of the Causes of Wealth Inequality, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  ( 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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• Who Misses the USSR?

  
  Russia — Authority: 411
  The Global South, it seems. According to a BBC poll published on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , “opinion about the disintegration of the Soviet Union is sharply divided. Europeans overwhelmingly say it was a good thing: 79% in Germany, 76% in Britain and 74% in France feel that way. But ...
  2 days ago

• Japan’s Income Inequality, International Comparison

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  Michael Moore’s documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story“, has spurred some talks on the class divide (not yet a war) in the United States. The documentary itself was vintage Michael Moore — simplistic, sometimes polarizing storytelling with a touch of humor. read more
  4 days ago

• Unemployment Rises, Especially Among Single Moms, but Some Help Is on the Way

  
  Womenstake — Authority: 590
  by Joan Entmacher , Vice President for Family Economic Security, and Valerie Norton , Public Policy Fellow, National Womens Law Center Unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October, reaching a 26-year high, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . While the unemployment rate among men ...
  4 days ago

• MPs’ expenses row is symptom of wider inequality

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 538
  We have not got stuck into the debate about MPs’ expenses here as everybody else has done it to death. Nor do I think – given voter anger – MPs have any option other than to accept the Kelly recommendations in full, even if I agree that some of them are badly thought through. (Charles Clarke has an intelligent ...
  4 days ago

• Harriet Harman: The case of the gender pay discrimination denier

  
  Fitaloon at MicroShaft — Authority: 127
  A new “crime” has been invented by Miss Harperson.This is the crime of being a gender pay discrimination denier.Whatever next can Zanu Labour imply about people?In an answer to an otherwise innocuous question  as follows:Mark Harper (Shadow Minister (Disabled People), Work and Pensions; Forest of Dean, ...
  4 days ago

• Executive Pay

  
  The Unbroken Window — Authority: 138
  You’ll often hear railing that CEO pay is nuts and immorally high. After all, who needs $11 million per year? And how can it be necessary or fair to have CEOs running around making 400 times the typical worker pay, while 25 years ago that number was roughly 30 times larger. Fine, have those opinions, I may even ...
  4 days ago

• Is this as good as it gets?

  
  UNITYblog — Authority: 129
  by Marty Gfrom The StandardNovember 5, 2009Most of the wealth in New Zealand is owned by a tiny fraction of the people because our political/economic system makes it that way.
10% of people have more income than 50% combined. That’s just income. The inequality of wealth distribution is far greater. The net wealth ...
  5 days ago

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