Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home

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At Amazon, Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration .
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, Broke in America

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At Amazon, Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty .
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, Broke in America

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At Amazon, Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox, Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty .
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Biden's Incoming Press Secretary Laughs When Asked Who Is Handling Baby Formula Crisis

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From Katie Pavlich, at Townhall, " Incoming White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked onboard Air Force One Wednesday af...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Stocks Skidded Friday, Dow Dropping More Than 900 Points in Broad Investor Selloff

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Shoot, another week like this one and the Dow will be in correction territory. My funds squeaked out of the first quarter with a mild $500 l...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Bernard-Henri Lévy, the 'Last Liberal Interventionist'

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A phenomenal, wondrous interview, at Bari Weiss's Substack, " A Conversation With the Last Liberal Interventionist ": Do you t...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child

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At Amazon, Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City .
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice

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At Amazon, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay .
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Andrew Hacker, Two Nations

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At Amazon, Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal .
Monday, July 12, 2021

Biden Administration to Begin Monthly Family Subsidy Payments This Week

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Hey, three-hundred a month to families with kids under 6, and $250 who are older.  That's no chump change. In fact, the one-year cost fo...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Coronavirus Ravages California's Central Valley

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At LAT, " Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel and familiar path ": Coronavirus ravages Californ...

L.A. County Removes Homeless From Freeway Underpasses

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Some of these folks lived under freeways for years. Mind-boggling. At LAT, " They made a home under L.A.’s freeways. But soon they co...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Class Differences in Education

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At NYT, " College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are ": This is a sobering piece that will gi...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

AOC's 'Just Society'

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Well, we already had the "Great Society," and it wasn't "just," apparently. At NPR, " Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Yellow Vest Update

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Clarie Berlinski rattled off a long thread last night on the violence of the yellow vest protesters. They're anarcho-nihilists, basica...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

The Montavilla Initiative

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I'm a bleeding heart on homelessness, mostly because the leftist media gets the story all wrong, all the time. As noted previously, the ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts

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At Amazon, William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor .
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Emmanuel Macron's Nightmare

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The worst riots in France in a couple of generations. Folks are being reminded of 1968. At the Economist, " Emmanuel Macron’s problem...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Paris Riots

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These are called the "yellow jacket" riots, because French citizens are required to keep reflectorized vests in their vehicles, an...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Progressive California the Most Racist State

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From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, " NUMBER ONE IN POVERTY, CALIFORNIA ISN’T OUR MOST PROGRESSIVE STATE — IT’S OUR MOST RACIST ONE "...