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Frederick Smith

Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows - 0 views

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    Study, conducted by Stanford University and released by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University in Nov., 2011... shows a changed map of prosperity in the United States over the past four decades, with larger patches of affluence and poverty and a shrinking middle.... The study also found that there is more residential sorting by income.... It raises, but does not answer, the question of whether increased economic inequality, and the resulting income segregation, impedes social mobility.
Frederick Smith

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - 0 views

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    "The government safety net was created to keep Americans from abject poverty, but the poorest households no longer receive a majority of government benefits. A secondary mission has gradually become primary: maintaining the middle class from childhood through retirement. The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year."
Frederick Smith

In Pursuing Progress, Should Borders Matter? by Andrew Revkin - 0 views

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    Do Americans have a moral responsibility to people in poverty in other countries?
Frederick Smith

Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable - London Telegraph - 0 views

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    Karl Rabeder, an Austrian Horation Alger, decided he'd be freer if he gave away his fortune to a micro-credit philanthropy he set up in South America. He does not pass judgment on other rich people who don't follow his example
Frederick Smith

ECONOMICS & UNIN - 0 views

ECONOMICS & UNINSURED An individual's lack of health insurance affects everyone in the country economically, so requiring it is constitutional.  When the uninsured person goes to the ER, t...

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