|
||||
|
What We're Reading
The People’s Budget, an op-ed by Jeffrey Sachs at Huffington Post, includes links to the various budgets that have been proposed. Sachs says: “[The People's Budget] is humane, responsible, and most of all sensible, reflecting the true values of the American people and the real needs of the floundering economy. Unlike Paul Ryan’s almost absurdly vicious attack on the poor and working class, the People’s Budget would close the deficit by raising Continue reading The People’s Budget What We're Reading
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, by Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity Fair, May 2011. Stiglitz says 1 percent of Americans take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—”an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.” What We're Reading
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (2010). Today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status — much like their grandparents before them, who lived under an explicit system of control. The old forms of discrimination — in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service Continue reading The New Jim Crow What We're Reading
Anatomy of An Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker (2010). Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues Continue reading Anatomy of an Epidemic |
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 The Real Wealth of Portland - All Rights Reserved |
||||