Even the Gipper thought the rich should pay their fair share.
Poverty & Wealth
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History’s Missed Moment
Why did the greatest failure of laissez-faire capitalism since the Great Depression lead to a turn to the right rather than the left in both Europe and the U.S.?
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All the President’s Frenemies
In publicly attacking Obama are Tavis Smiley and Cornel West upholding the tradition of MLK or acting out of personal pique—or both?
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I Ruined the Economy and All I Got Were These Lousy Tax Cuts
Will the GOP’s budget plan spark a double-dip recession?
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The Job Ghetto
Competition in the inner city even for fast-food jobs is so great that welfare recipients will have trouble getting them.
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The New Urban Gamble
Does the Carnival City model–with its casinos, stadiums, and convention centers–promise to revitalize cities? Or is it a misguided use of public investment?
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Rewarding Work: Feasible Antipoverty Policy
A higher minimum wage and the earned income tax credit fit like puzzle pieces, each compensating for the other’s flaws. Together they are our best bet to fight poverty.
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Of Our Time: Rules That Liberate
R ecently, I participated in a new television program called Debates, Debates, in which two teams have an hour to argue an issue of the day. The proposition under debate that day was whether trade sanctions should ever be used to advance human rights. For the opposition, the team captain was Eugene Rotberg, former vice […]
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Special Report: The Crime Debate
T he city of Inglewood, population 140,000, lies in the southwest corner of the Los Angeles sprawl. It has the features of almost every other L.A. suburb-long commercial strips of burger shacks and auto body shops, low-rise neighborhoods of motel-style apartment complexes and tiny homes with tiny lawns. The city map is dominated by large […]
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Controversy: Family Trouble
Continuing the debate from “Family Feud,” July-August 1997 and “Family Values: The Sequel,” May-June 1997. BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD I n a review essay that purports to include my book, The Divorce Culture, Arlene Skolnick ignores what the book actually says. Instead, she falsely ascribes to me things I have never written. Let me begin with […]
