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The rise of luxury toilet paper Washington Post (Dr. Kevin)
All You Need to Know About Income Inequality, in One Comparison New York Times (LR)
Bernie Sanders is increasingly iffy on running for president — and the reason is thoroughly depressing Salon (martha r
Wow!!! The Fed Gives A Giant Fuck You to Working Class Americans!! First Rebuttal (Richard D)
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/12/rudy-giuliani-blames-obama-ferguson-shooting
Working Minority Families Are Twice As Likely To Be Low-Income As Whites WSJ Economics
Jerry Crawford, Ready For Hillary adviser and Clinton’s “once and future main man” in Iowa represented Monsanto at his law and lobbying firm, and endorsed an Iowa Republican in 2010 [Alternet]. Well, bipartisanship.
The Democratic bench is stronger than people think: Ron Wyden, Sherrod Brown, Deval Patrick, “Mike” Bloomberg (!), and Amy Klobuchar could all challenge Clinton, at least theoretically [Slate].
“[T]he evidence strongly suggests that Ferguson is not even the worst civil rights offender in St. Louis County and that adjacent towns are also systematically targeting poor and minority citizens for street and traffic stops to rake in fines, criminalizing entire communities in the process” [Op-Ed, New York Times]. In fact, Ferguson could be the healthiest, since they’ve been able to resist.
“A researcher from Rasmussen, which conducted a survey of 2,009 adults, found about 37 percent of [18- to 34-year-olds] find the Internet scary, compared with 23 percent of 35- to 54-year-olds and 23 percent of people 55 and older” [Bloomberg]. And they’re right!
- “The median retirement account balance when you look across all households? $2,500″ according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security [Bloomberg].
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-an-open-letter-to-hdr22clintonemailcom.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=1
Geography for Dummies:
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