There is so much more I could write about poverty and the underclass in America, but there comes a point of saturation. It’s not my point, necessarily, but much of the public’s. I have never run out of words or passion when it comes to social issues, education, women, children, crime, class, or any of [...]
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Few would argue that there is not a health care crisis in America. We now rank 29th in infant mortality, behind countries such as Cuba, Slovakia, and Hungary. Since 2000, according to a study by the non-partisan Kaiser Foundation, the average worker contribution for a family health insurance policy has increased 107%. Over 45 million [...]
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Eileen F. had an idyllic middle-class upbringing. Reared by two loving parents, both professionals in their fields, she attended Ivy League schools and went on to become a teacher. Now 58 years old and partially disabled, Eileen struggles to pay the $700 per month rent on her small cabin in upstate New York. She supplements [...]
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INTRODUCTION We live in a world of instant everything. Every human situation, it seems, comes attached with cliches, platitudes, bromides, stereotypes and parodies. There is, conceivably, a box to place every person in, and a label to slap them with. There are also socially created barriers that inform perception, determine response, and decide opportunity. As [...]
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I’ve studiously avoided the topic of politics since my feckless peers threw Hillary Clinton out with the bath water. I’ve bitten my tongue against denigrating phrases like “the bubba factor” to describe the working class. I’ve sat on my hands to prevent myself from writing diatribes against poisonous but persistent Republicans, and vaporous, elitist liberals. [...]
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In the headlines yesterday, George W. Bush expressed panic about the economy. The same man who has repeatedly denied that America is in an economic meltdown is now calling the $700B bailout of financial institutions “urgent” and warning Americans of the doom and gloom that is sure to follow if Congress fails to hand Wall [...]
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