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Monica Potts

Monica Potts is a senior writer for The American Prospect. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate. She also blogs at PostBourgie.

Recent Articles

Giving Parents Information on Food.

Monica PottsJan 25, 2010

Perhaps not surprisingly, a study published in the journal Pediatrics shows that parents choose meals with fewer calories for their children when calories are posted on the menus.

The study found the meals parents chose when given calorie information had about 20 percent fewer calories than those chosen when parents were not presented with calorie information on the menu.

Walking Away From Bad Debts.

Monica PottsJan 25, 2010

Two gigantic real estate companies, Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty, that bought the last sizable chunk of middle-class housing in Manhattan are walking away from the failed project and turning the properties over to their creditors:

Poverty on the Rise in Suburbs.

Monica PottsJan 22, 2010

The Brookings Institution released a new report this week finding that poverty rose fastest in 2008 in suburbs, particularly in suburban and urban areas in the midwest. It also found that more Americans are now low-income, hovering just above the poverty line.

Trusting Women to Disregard this Ad.

Monica PottsJan 22, 2010

As I'm sure almost everyone knows by now, 2007 Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow is taking to the airwaves with his mom during the Super Bowl so that they can tell everyone about how she disregarded the advice of her doctors and risked death to give birth to the Football Messiah.

Focus on the Family, the Christian group paying for the ad, hasn't released the details of what the life-affirming message will contain, but the Gainesville Sun let us know about the tale of Tim's mama and her fifth child.

Scott Brown, Super Star.

Monica PottsJan 22, 2010

The Christian Science Monitor tells us that Scott Brown is signing is autographs with "41," but also that he's open to working with Democrats too.

He has an independent record in Massachusetts," says campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstom. "He knows how to work with the other side.

Brown says that he wants to serve on Senate Armed Services, Homeland Security, and the Appropriations Committee. He campaigned on ending business as usual in Washington. Asked how he plans to do it, he said:

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