what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes. It can also engage in what is sometimes called “predistribution,” strengthening the bargaining power of lower-paid workers and limiting the opportunities for a handful of people to make giant sums.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlObama's War on Inequality - The New York Times - 16 views
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We can see this in our own history. The middle-class society that baby boomers like me grew up in didn’t happen by accident; it was created by the New Deal, which engineered what economists call the “Great Compression,” a sharp reduction in income gaps.
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Obamacare provides aid and subsidies mainly to lower-income working Americans, and it pays for that aid partly with higher taxes at the top. That makes it an important redistributionist policy — the biggest such policy since the 1960s.
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Learning Never Stops: Explore Anne Frank's hiding place - 6 views
The Accelerated Modular Learning Project: The Evolution into Web-based Courses - 49 views
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Information and knowledge
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paradigm shift
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Anne Frank - The Secret Annex Online - 75 views
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A well made site detailing the life and diary of Anne Frank. View the place where she lived and the people with her through her years in hiding. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History
Should College Gossip Websites be Banned? « OPPapers Blog - 15 views
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Should College Gossip Websites be Banned?
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The Chronicle on Higher Education reports on College ACB: Millsaps blocked access to the site a month ago after student leaders suggested a review of the site contents, said Brit Katz, vice president for student life and dean of students, in an e-mail to The Chronicle. Millsaps had also banned JuicyCampus. Dawn Watkins, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Washington and Lee University, said administrators there pulled the plug late last year after their numerous requests to Mr. Frank to remove most content mentioning the university were denied. Ms. Watkins said a number of reported cases of cyberbullying among first-year female students prompted those requests. When asked whether restricting access to the site was a freedom-of-speech issue, Ms. Watkins and Mr. Katz both said their primary responsibilities were to prevent anonymous postings that name individuals
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