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The Latest High-End Real Estate Amenity? The Luxury Safe Room
Disaster preparedness is a big deal to the one percent. By Adrienne Gaffney.
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The Baton Rouge flooding proves just how little coastal elites care about the rest of America
This is what decades of poverty, corruption, and abandonment found in many majority-black cities throughout the Midwest and South looks like. By Sarah Kendzior.
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Culture, Circumstance, and Agency
Reflections on J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.” By Aaron M. Renn.
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The Farmers of Tanner Creek
The little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland [Oregon]. By Putsata Reang.
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The Federal Poverty Line is Too Damn Low
The U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement today that the number of Americans living below the poverty line fell between 2014 and 2015 is good news. But before we get too excited, it is worth noting that the federal poverty line was a meager $12,000 for a single person living alone in 2015 (and only about $24,000 for a married couple living with two children).
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Why So Many Poor Americans Don’t Get Help Paying For Housing
The Mengs are just one of millions of families across the U.S. that are struggling to find affordable housing. The government has established several housing assistance programs to help them, but the vast majority of poor Americans don’t receive any housing aid. And the problem is getting worse: The share of poor families that devote more than half of their income to housing costs has risen by 10 percentage points since 1991.
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‘We are building our way to hell’: tales of gentrification around the world
From community displacement in Mexico City to tourism-triggered evictions in Lisbon and crazy rent hikes in Silicon Valley, our readers shared stories of gentrification happening in their cities – and the initiatives trying to tackle it. By Francesca Perry.
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The Golden Age of Squatting
Is There a Future For Alternative Living in London? By John Komurki.
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Who Deserves To Be Poor?
The notion that poverty stems from a lack of will power and a poor work ethic is as old as America. Why that needs to be dispelled.
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Eight of the craziest perks we’ve seen in luxury real estate listings
Developers have resorted to new techniques to combat a softening market. By Madeline Stone. (Aug. 15, 2016)
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Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an ‘oligarchy’
What would Aristotle have thought of modern liberal democracy? It’s complicated. By Paul Cartledge. (June 3, 2016)
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James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
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How the education gap is tearing politics apart
In the year of Trump and Brexit, education has become the greatest divide of all – splitting voters into two increasingly hostile camps. But this is not a clash between the ignorant and the enlightened. By David Runciman. (Oct. 5, 2016)
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The TPP and Free Trade: Time to Retake the English Language
The real story here is that the TPP is a deal about redistributing more income upward. By Dean Baker.
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Apartheid ended 20 years ago, so why is Cape Town still ‘a paradise for the few’?
The South African city is World Design Capital, yet residents of its Khayelitsha township live in appallingly cramped, unhygienic conditions. The need for long-promised urban reform is urgent. By Oliver Wainwright.
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The Urge to Splurge
Why is it so hard to reduce the Pentagon budget? By William D. Hartung.
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Fool Me Once
Many white workers aren't voting for Democrats this November. And not for the reasons you think. By Connor Kilpatrick.
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Will A Hillary Clinton Presidency Lead To Another Wall Street Banking Crisis?
By Nomi Prins.
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These Are the Charts That Scare Wall Street
Charts that go bump in the night. By Luke Kawa, Sid Verma, Julie Verhage, and Narae Kim.
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“Good men are God in the flesh”
“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
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