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Sunday, May 31, 2015
Victims of false consciousness
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In my last post, I looked at people's expectations of how their children's standards of living would compare with their own. There ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Whose mirage?
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A Pew survey from early 2008 asked "When your children are the age that you are now, do you think their standard of living will be much...
Thursday, May 14, 2015
End of the middle?
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The New York Times had a story the other day about how presidential candidates are avoiding the term "middle class" in favor of t...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
The Clever Fellows Strike Again
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None of the stories on the British election that I read mentioned the popular vote, so I looked and found it here. (Slightly less detaile...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Clever fellows on the one side, damned fools on the other
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I heard a piece on NPR's "Marketplace" about the upcoming British election . They started by talking to two authorities who s...
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Land of opportunity?
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We're going to be hearing a lot about social mobility over the next 18 months as presidential candidates talk about how they worked thei...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
None dare call it redistribution
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A letter to the New York Times on Sunday protested against the language in the article in public opinion towards redistribution mentioned in...
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