Washing machines and maternal mortality
Hans Rosling, the Swedish public health stats guru behind the ever-so-brilliant Gapminder, has a new TEDtalk on washing machines! When we were living in Ghana, I honestly didn’t pine for[…]
Category: Inequality
Food, education, and corporate taxation
An interesting article from The Economist detailing the screwed up propositions that revised California’s educational funding, then revised the revision, then revised the revision to the revision. Hans Rosling published[…]
March Madness and tax lending
I don’t really follow any sort of popular sports, so it may not surprise you to hear that I know next to nothing about March Madness. Well, I knew next[…]
For 911, use your voice?
Sometime last year, while sitting in traffic behind a bus, I saw a mobile-billboard that read, “Texting is not a choice, for 9-1-1 use your voice!” The bus turned down[…]
Kenyan torture victims seek compensation
The BBC Newshour today had a story featuring a torture victim from Kenya seeking compensation for his castration, alongside other now elderly victims of colonial torture. The report also featured[…]
Tim Wise at PLU
Tim Wise’s latest book (Colorblind) addresses the move toward colorblindness in our society, and how this is “one of the chief impediments to addressing institutional racism.” Julian Bond, he points[…]
Economic stratification a la Mother Jones
“If $5.15 hourly minimum wage had risen at the same rate as CEO compensation since 1990, it would now stand at $23.03.” (Source: 2006 Mother Jones article, which cites DOL[…]
Mike Huckabee and Peter King, racism manufactures consent
Gearing up for a presidential run in the coming months, Mike Huckabee is busy making various racist statements in the press. First there was a diatribe about how Obama was[…]
Oil in Takoradi
I was on my way to teach a class today when I heard a segment on the BBC World Service. The segment concerned oil in Ghana, and was filed from[…]
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Why isn’t Wall Street in jail?
Matt Taibbi has a comprehensive article entitled “Why isn’t Wall Street in jail?” that was published in Rolling Stone a few days ago. I’ll let the sub-heading from the article’s[…]