In These Times

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• • 27 Nov 05
  • 8:42 am

  Here’s a Wall Street Journal article, “As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S.,Class Mobility Stalls.” It has more on percentages of income and mobility. Here’s a quote: "Bhashkar Mazumder, a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago economist, recently combined the government survey with Social Security records for thousands of men born between 1963 and 1968 to see what they were earning when they reached their late 20s or 30s. Only 14% of the men born to fathers on the bottom 10% of the wage ladder made it to the top 30%. Only 17% of the men born to fathers on the top …

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• • 27 Nov 05
  • 9:11 am

  This was a great piece. I rarely read the Times anymore. Its propaganda in the build-up to the Iraqi War has really exposed the Times as a mouthpiece for neo-liberal drivel. But I have noticed the media trend reporting women want to go back to more “traditional” roles. This has to be for mostly elite women, since most other families rely on two incomes for survival. My wife and I often discuss how -- from what is shown on TV– strong women are now women who would do anything to get what they want: a man, a job, or prize money …

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• • 04 Dec 05
  • 8:28 am

  Jan VanDenBerg, What is the mainstream left? Sounds like an Oxymoron to me. But we live in a worlds where red has come to mean reactionary, so who knows. wbblack

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