Cita
Enero 22, 2012
31 notas
"In fact, there are now more people in prison than there are farmers, which is to say that you are more likely to find an American being kept in a cage than you are to find one who is raising corn or cattle."

— Sam Smith in Why Bother?: Getting a life in a Locked-down Land

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Vídeo
Enero 13, 2012
29 notas

Is the American dream fading?

With more people living on the breadline in the US, we ask if it is time to abandon the American dream.

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Agosto 28, 2011
13 notas
Says Josue de Castro: “I, who have recieved an international peace prize, think that, unhappily, there is no other solution than violence for Latin America.”  In the eye of this hurricane 120 million children are stirring.  Latin America’s population grows as does no other: it has more than tripled in half a century. One child dies of disease or hunger every minute, but in the year 2000 there will be 650 million Latin Americans, half of whom will be under fifteen: a time bomb.  Among the 280 million Latin Americans of today, 50 million are unemployed or underemployed and about 100 million are illiterate;half of them live in crowded, unhealthy slums. —Eduardo Galeano, Introduction to Open Veins of Latin America  (1973)

Says Josue de Castro: “I, who have recieved an international peace prize, think that, unhappily, there is no other solution than violence for Latin America.”  In the eye of this hurricane 120 million children are stirring.  Latin America’s population grows as does no other: it has more than tripled in half a century. One child dies of disease or hunger every minute, but in the year 2000 there will be 650 million Latin Americans, half of whom will be under fifteen: a time bomb.  Among the 280 million Latin Americans of today, 50 million are unemployed or underemployed and about 100 million are illiterate;half of them live in crowded, unhealthy slums.

—Eduardo Galeano, Introduction to Open Veins of Latin America  (1973)

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Vídeo
Enero 08, 2011
14 notas

sheer brilliance

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Cita
Enero 08, 2011
"The United States is the rich country with the most skewed income distribution. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average earnings of the richest 10 percent of Americans are 16 times those for the 10 percent at the bottom of the pile. That compares with a multiple of 8 in Britain and 5 in Sweden. Not coincidentally, Americans are less economically mobile than people in other developed countries. There is a 42 percent chance that the son of an American man in the bottom fifth of the income distribution will be stuck in the same economic slot. The equivalent odds for a British man are 30 percent, and 25 percent for a Swede."

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NYTimes.com

This article was adapted from “The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do,” by Eduardo Porter, an editorial writer for The New York Times. The book, to be published on Jan. 4 by Portfolio, examines how pricing affects all of our choices.

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Diciembre 11, 2010
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