Post Tagged with: "Poverty"

Beatrice Walton / October 12, 2011 12:02 am

In Defense of Occupy

Economic inequality is something we should all be talking about. Occupy Wall Street is making it nearly unavoidable, and that's a good thing.

Rina Kuusipalo / September 22, 2011 12:50 pm

A Broken Social Contract?

How London's other half lives and is born to fail: the developed world’s worst social mobility and equality levels reveal a broken social contract.

Lena Bae / April 10, 2011 9:37 am

Why You’ve Never Heard of Community Action: Civic Participation and Poverty

How and why the Community Action Program was transformed from an engine for participation of the poor to just another program for service delivery.

Max Novendstern / September 5, 2010 10:32 pm

Geek Power

Here’s Bill Gates from a Wired magazine interview about the state of computer hacking: If he were a teenager today, he says, he’d be hacking biology. “Creating artificial life with DNA synthesis. That’s sort of the equivalent of machine-language programming,” says Gates, whose work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has led him to develop his own expertise in disease [...]

Kristen Eberts and Robert Lothman / May 19, 2010 7:28 pm

The New Moral Majority?

Young evangelicals shift left, change focus.

Jonathan Yip / May 19, 2010 10:35 am

Generational Inadequacy

I just finished watching Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ The Pacific, an HBO miniseries following a group of marines in WWII. And it was truly epic. Melodramatic and overwrought maybe, but the war in the Pacific was no jungle romp. As The Pacific vividly shows, it was unimaginably gruesome, traumatic, and relentless. The marines battled the unyielding and suicidal Japanese on malaria-infested, [...]

Peyton Miller / April 20, 2010 2:18 pm

E.U.: Vacationing a Human Right

In a bold step intended to reduce poverty, the European Union will soon be providing some of the Continent’s poorest citizens with subsidized plane tickets and hotel rooms. The Toronto-based National Post reported on Monday that the European Union has declared traveling for tourism a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayer money for those [...]

Will Rafey / April 20, 2010 11:44 am

Georgian President Vows “No Wine For Russia” at IOP

Well, not completely. But Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, did boast yesterday that the wine produced in Georgia is simply so good (thanks to his free market reforms) that he hopes the Russians continue their embargo, because to sell it on the Russian market would be a waste – the Russians, he explained, will drink just about anything. If [...]

Peyton Miller / April 17, 2010 3:16 pm

Robin Hood Strikes Again, Part 2

In his April 11 post, “Weighing In: The Great Tax Debate,” Max Novendstern rebuts my most recent argument that it is inappropriate for 73 percent of federal income taxes to be paid by 10 percent of the American population. Since our disagreement is to at least some extent based on our differing conceptions of fairness, I will offer only a [...]

Kathy Lee and Taylor Helgren / March 31, 2010 4:17 pm

Can Soccer Save South Africa?

High expectations mask tough realities

Taylor Lane and Thomas Hwang / March 23, 2010 11:36 am

Putting a Price on Climate Change

Copenhagen postmortem and the question of climate aid.

Will Rafey / March 15, 2010 6:18 pm

A Reflection on Ourselves

Media narratives about backwards Africa say more about us than them.

Sophie Angelis / March 12, 2010 4:30 pm

Aid with Dignity

Jo Luck

Jimmy Wu / March 8, 2010 3:02 pm

An Enlightened Approach to Illegal Immigration

Why the politics of immigration must be reconciled with reality

Sam Barr / March 8, 2010 10:48 am

Do Harvard Students Try to Pass for Poor?

James McAuley asks today in the Harvard Crimson: “What is it with Harvard students and pretending to be poor?” James is a polite guy, so he doesn’t name names. He cites “the more well-moneyed of our peers,” he cites “many affluent students,” he cites “wealthy individuals” and “wealthy peers” and “wealthy Harvard undergraduates.” And he cites people with specific phony [...]

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