1 day ago by Congressional Aid

Tonight, Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois took to the floor of the House of Representatives to declare his opposition to a health care bill amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak. The Stupak Amendment would make it illegal for any health care plan accepting any national health care plan participants to provide ...

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4 days ago by zangodare

by Ahmed Sule, CFA “The Nazi’s rated their Russian slave workers as sub-human. Any discrimination we harbour are first steps on that same viciously slippery slope”- Bob Le Sueur The purpose of this letter is to respond to your paper titled “Social class differences in IQ: implications for the govern ...

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5 days ago by El Cabrero

A Rhinovirus, courtesy of wikipedia. I think they magnified it a time or two. There is a large and growing body of scientific research about how things like inequality, class and social status engrave themselves into our bodies. Generally speaking, people in higher social positions are less likely t ...

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6 days ago by Rebecca Reid

My experiences with Victorian novels had been quite positive, so I jumped in to read a few more. I enjoyed both The Moonstone and North and South very much. I did give up on A Tale of Two Cities this week. While Oliver Twist seemed intuitive and easy to breeze through, Two Cities has been confusing, ...

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7 days ago by Jake

I enjoy the 5 myths column that usually appears in the Post's Sunday Outlook Section. I don't always agree, but it usually gets me thinking a bit. Got bootstraps? Got hands? Can you pull yourself up a notch? Is your name Horatio Alger? 5 myths about our land of opportunity

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16 days ago by Dawn Pugh

The truth about Income Inequality; Did you know that most modern affluent societies harbor the greatest income inequalities and they also encounter the highest rate of psycho- social problems. We can all agree that as most modern day countries develop, then their living standards improve…right. So t ...

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18 days ago by Marina

[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on Octob ...

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18 days ago by Jon

Sociologists Douglas Massey and Jonathan Rothwell have published an article looking at patterns of residential segregation titled “ The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas” (Urban Affairs Review, 44: 779-806). In a presentation at Fordham University, Massey summarized ...

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19 days ago by janevangalen

College Choice and the Success of Working-Class Students « Working-Class Perspectives Excellent blog post from Sherry Linkon on working class students’ completion rates and the complicated questions of college “fit” for working class students. Check out the comments for info on the great First Gener ...

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20 days ago by Malcolm Redfellow

More of mordant Morin Malcolm reckons that Jim Morin of the Miami Herald manages as many "hits" as most cartoonists. Here is yesterday's (well, it's dated yesterday) and it's again right on the button: To think, only weeks ago those bastards were begging for taxpayers' money.

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