The Bleak Face of American Poverty
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
The Bleak Face of American Poverty
Andrew Leonard, Salon
“Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say,” blared the Friday headline in the New York Times. The traditional strategy for measuring poverty, we were told, did not include the benefits of federal programs like food stamps and tax credits that were helping to keep Americans above the poverty line. A new, “supplemental measure” from the U.S. Census that took such factors into account would reveal that many Americans thought to be living below the poverty line were actually above it — “as much as half of the reported rise…
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Responding to Future Nat’l Security Challenges
Kenneth Weinstein, RCP
As the congressional Super Committee deliberates on ways to reduce our national deficit by $1.2 trillion, its members have been taking suggestions from various quarters"”politicians, economists, and now even the public. But there is one man whose thinking they should keep in mind as they make their recommendations next month: Herman Kahn.The most noted and controversial nuclear strategist of the Cold War, Kahn (1922-83) was a polymath whose areas of expertise would eventually entail not merely geo-strategy but history, physics, economics, and innovation. He predicted the…
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Super Committee Is Heading for Super Catastrophe
Brian Beutler, TPM
As of Tuesday morning, betting on the Super Committee to succeed would be playing the odds.A key member of the Senate Democratic leadership team has openly predicted the panel will gridlock and fail, and placed the blame squarely on Republicans.