hello fromWarsaw
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Post by hello fromWarsaw on Mar 30, 2011 19:55:19 GMT -5
As an ex private schooler and teacher, I can go for a scandinavian system ;D But you need THE WHOLE THING!! ;D
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Post by hello fromWarsaw on Mar 30, 2011 22:58:33 GMT -5
Very educational...Here, of course, many people could never afford the $720. So you have to fix society too. Probably living wage, very affordable health care and college and day care and, well, that would about do it.
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Post by hello fromWarsaw on Mar 30, 2011 23:06:32 GMT -5
They also don't have sports programs -HUGE!, driver's ed, school buses -they have PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
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Post by hello fromWarsaw on Mar 31, 2011 16:48:23 GMT -5
Jay Coggins, Star Tribune:
Economists, a famously contentious bunch, disagree about many things. On the question of economic inequality, though, they disagree hardly at all: American inequality is high and rising.
Economists use three main tools to study inequality. They measure poverty.
They compute the Gini coefficient. And they compare the income or wealth of the rich (or the very rich) to that of the rest of us.
On all of these counts the U.S. record since 1970 is grim for all but those at the top.
In a recent study, economist Wojciech Kopcuz of Columbia and his coauthors estimated mobility by looking within cohorts.
They found that only about one person in 30 can expect to move from the bottom 40 percent of the income scale into the top 20 percent within 10 years. Mobility is not high, and it is not rising.
There exists a determined and noisy band of American inequality deniers, to which Cunningham evidently belongs. We all need to on guard against believing the things they know that just ain't so.
See page 1. Worst rich/poor gap and upward mobility is a fact. And Voodoo has done it.
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