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Die Suche nach »social inequality« hat 12 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.

Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It
By Paul Craig Roberts There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government,... ...
America, the Land of Inequality
By Tom Eley New studies reveal that the social divide between rich and poor in the US has grown much starker in the current economic crisis, and that even before it hit the country was the most unequal... ...
Obama’s creepy “call to service”
The Distributed Republic by Reason 11/07/08 Well, it appears that this wasn’t just standard electioneering pablum, because Obama’s new website expounds on his plan ‘to require 50 hours of community service... ...
The Decline of the Roman Empire Began Like That
Wealth Gap Creating a Social Time Bomb John Vidal, The Guardian UK: "Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new United Nations report on... ...
U.S. Orgy of Debt
By ERIC MARGOLIS America has reveled for two decades in an orgy of debt. The U.S. national debt is now twice its net worth. From Wall Street's "masters of the universe" financial powerhouses such as... ...
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prizewinner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly... ...
The middle is falling out of the economy
The American Prospect by Harold Meyerson 02/13/08 At the surprising invitation of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin, I testified today to the Labor Subcommittee of the House... ...
Gilded Once More
Paul Krugman writes: "One of the distinctive features of the modern American right has been nostalgia for the late 19th century, with its minimal taxation, absence of regulation and reliance on faith-based... ...
60 million Americans living on less than $7 a day
US income figures show staggering rise in social inequality http://www.wsws .org/articles/2006/dec2006 /ineq-d12.shtml From Information Clearing House ...
Exploration In Social Inequality
In 1974, when income inequality was at its lowest point, the top 10 percent of U.S. households had incomes 31 times that of the poorest 10 percent and four times greater than median-income households.... ...