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A certain amount of economic inequality is just luck. At the extreme, some people win the lottery, and others don't. But there is also the potential for more ... 86% ... of the trend increase in inequality [from 1977-2009] occurs among people with measurably the same skills, whereas just 14% of the trend increase com

...using projects and the newer voucher system really make it easier for poor people to invest in their kids’ futures. Over time, these programs help the U.S. ...ed and worked. In recent decades, public housing is more about giving poor people vouchers, which allows them to move into the suburbs. As a result, poverty

... pay the loan back, the payday loan industry tries to find poor, desperate people, dangles loans in front of them, and then traps them into a cycle that drai ...ay loans” are a Wall Street/financial industry scheme/scam that preys on people with low incomes. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is workin

… realised that the behaviour of people who are individualistic, self-interested, rational calculators could readil

...cases before state and local law enforcement agencies may permanently keep people’s property. This conviction requirement addresses a gap in the law that c ...ughout the country, especially people of color, immigrants, and low-income people who cannot afford to fight the government in court,” said Mica Doctoroff,

... social justice as distributive justice, i.e., how wealth is divided among people. Social justice can instead be understood as the struggle to free individua ...eir achievements. To decide on merit presupposes that we can judge whether people have made such use of their opportunities as they ought to have made and ho

...s of self-ownership on its own simply doesn’t rule out nearly as much as people think it does.

...might be committed to, and this is taken to be one of its great strengths: people of all persuasions in a pluralistic society can have reason to support a li ...n of those who regularly infringe it from decent company - or even without people not allowing their children to mix with those who have bad manners. It is b

...hem are my enemies...", "libertarians are a monstrous, disgusting bunch of people..."; tell us what you REALLY think, Ayn! | show=}} All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itse

... (2016) find that misperceptions about labor market opportunities can lead people to accept lower wages. ...in the form of wages, while similar assistance was often not available for people who wished to obtain coverage on their own. These features of the health in

...principled and wise choice. (I’ve voted for Ralph Nader, twice, and many people I respect and admire will vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.) But i ... Darwinian free-for-all, an adolescent Randian fantasy in which privileged people are liberated from an obligation to take responsibility for the consequence

...ism is about equal rights, equal treatment and equal opportunities for all people. | show=}}

...can be addressed through repealing laws and abolishing agencies. When most people hear about a “theocratic” anything, they assume they will soon be confr ...here is to stay out of the way, allowing such preachers free access to the people, and thereby encouraging them to have at it. If you don’t give a heck abo

...ous Right, but it is also surprisingly seductive to Tea Partiers and young people, some of whom may not fully understand what is supposed to happen after the ...eligious Roundtable-sponsored event in Washington, D.C., which drew 15,000 people.[Correction: The Religious Round Table office was in D.C. The rally was in

...emselves as victims and everyone unlike themselves — women, LGBT people, people of color — as naturally collectivist barbarians." | show=}} ...lve to reflect the needs of a larger, more diverse market including women, people of color and players using consoles or mobile devices — in other words, t

...g sort of motivation for serious firefighting. The volunteers were full of people that needed to prove how manly and tough they were, and the privately hired

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...ernational’s appeal was met by a storm of opposition – some of it from people who were evidently failing to distinguish between the sex industry as a who ...d could not otherwise obtain. For various reasons, a significant number of people cannot get sex, or sufficient sex, or the kind of sex they want, freely. Un

...ly claim that the ban against DDT led to the deaths of tens of millions of people in malaria and that environmentalism is therefore a dangerous ideology with ...lication of the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962, more and more people became aware of the problems with excessive use of pesticides and it was ba

Few ideas have more profoundly poisoned the minds of more people than the notion of a ‘free market’ existing somewhere in the universe,