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Minimum Wage Anniversary

A sad anniversary is coming up shortly: if Congress does not act soon the last few years will represent the longest period ever that the minimum wage has not been adjusted. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a report here: Nine Years of Neglect This is grim reading. Since the last increase in […]

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The Pension Crisis

I came across this article in the New Yorker and thought I should pass it along to you:The Risk Pool As you know one of my current beefs is the demise of the middle class, and what I see as the Republican party attack on it. This article explains at depth one consequence of the […]

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Education and the Class System

America has so many social problems it’s hard to know where to begin. The Katrina disaster showed us the third world nature of our attitude toward poverty. And now there’s this news about education:Financial Aid and the Poor All the evidence points to the fact that America is developing a class system based around education: […]

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