This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach. Scott, a 24 year old dean's list college grad, is smart but unemployed. According to the New York Times, in five months, only one job has given him an offer: $40k as an insurance claims adjuster. Scott said no, because. Rethinking the American Dream. No one grasped this better than Norman Rockwell, who, stirred to action by Roosevelt’s speech, set to work on his famous “Four Freedoms” paintings: the one with the rough-hewn workman speaking his piece at a town meeting (Freedom of Speech); the one with the old lady praying in the pew (Freedom of Worship); the one with the Thanksgiving dinner (Freedom from Want); and the one with the young parents looking in on their sleeping children (Freedom from Fear).
These paintings, first reproduced in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, proved enormously popular, so much so that the original works were commandeered for a national tour that raised $133 million in U.S. war bonds, while the Office of War Information printed up four million poster copies for distribution. Bruce Meyer on the Middle Class, Poverty, and Inequality. Does America need an industrial policy. Editor's Note: Be sure to catch GPS every Sunday at 10a.m. and 1p.m.
EST. If you miss it, you can buy episodes on iTunes. By Fareed Zakaria, CNN President Obama spoke forcefully in his State of the Union about the importance of reviving manufacturing in America. If you talk with economists they will tell you it's a very complex problem, involving tax, trade regulatory policy, exchange rates, and educational skills. But when you move from high-level policy to specific cases, you will often find one element that is rarely talked about: a foreign government’s role in boosting its domestic manufacturers with specific loans, subsidies, streamlined regulations and benefits.
In a front page story last week, the New York Times detailed how Apple's iPhone ended up being made outside America. Www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents/incomemobilitystudy03-08revise.pdf. Sequence 13 (Page 7): Bogen, F. W. The German in America, or, Advice and instruction for German emigrants in the United States of America :also, a reader for beginners in the English and German languages. Boston : B.H. Greene ; New York : Koch ; Philadelp. OCCUPY WALL STREET. I get it – people are angry.
Very, very angry. I’m angry too. And Wall Street sure makes a great scapegoat, hence the Occupy Wall Street protest. Wall Street is a symbol of the “greed and corruption” that took over America and caused this whole mess. Who Runs the World ? – Network Analysis Reveals ‘Super Entity’ of Global Corporate Control. Business Published on August 28th, 2011 | by Michael Ricciardi In the first such analysis ever conducted, Swiss economic researchers have conducted a global network analysis of the most powerful transnational corporations (TNCs).
Their results have revealed a core of 737 firms with control of 80% of this network, and a “super entity” comprised of 147 corporations that have a controlling interest in 40% of the network’s TNCs. Strongly Connected Component (SCC); layout of the SCC (1318 nodes and 12,191 links). Node size scales logarithmically with operation revenue, node color with network control (from yellow to red). Open Letter to that 53% Guy. In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet of paper that says: I am a former Marine.
I work two jobs. I don’t have health insurance. I worked 60-70 hours a week for 8 years to pay my way through college. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country.
So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. Tea Party vs. OWS: The psychology and ideology of responsibility. One of the most robust findings in political psychology is that liberals tend to explain both poverty and wealth in terms of luck and the influence of social forces while conservatives tend to explain poverty and wealth in terms of effort and individual initiative.
Here's a useful summary of the sort of thing I have in mind: Harmon (2010a) built on these works by testing their conclusions against six U.S. public opinion polls. Secondary analysis found consistent and strong relationships. Conservatives and Republicans overwhelmingly attributed poverty to the personal failings of the poor themselves (lazy, drunk, etc.) while Democrats and liberals consistently offered social explanations like poor schools and lousy jobs for poverty. Later he looked at the inverse question, the reasons respondents give for others obtaining wealth (2010b).
The Broken Contract. Iraq was one of those wars where people actually put on pounds.
A few years ago, I was eating lunch with another reporter at an American-style greasy spoon in Baghdad's Green Zone.