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From the Washington Post’s Wonkblog: As the Occupy Wall Street protests swell in size and people pay closer attention to the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else, one question is why this divide even matters. One way to look at income inequality, after all, is that it’s no big deal. If a country [...]
From the Everett Herald: One hundred fifty years ago this week South Carolina troops fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. The seeds of war were planted in 1619, when the first Africans were forcefully kidnapped and brought to Virginia. Their status at that time was akin to indentured servants brought over from England. [...]
Today is Equal Pay Day, which each year highlights the continuing disparity between men’s and women’s earnings. This disparity, commonly known as the ‘wage gap‘, shows just how far we still have to go to achieve gender equity. Despite making modest gains in hourly earnings, women earn less than men in every sector of the [...]
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