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Poverty and Income in America

Jan 2nd, 2012
by Jordon Cooper.
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The four lost decades To me, what is really, really alarming is this: a typical American male who works full time and still has a job is earning almost exactly the same now as his counterpart was back in 1972, when Richard Nixon was in the White House, O. J. Simpson rushed a thousand yards [...]

The New Yorker vs. Scientology

Feb 10th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Paul Haggis takes on the Church of Scientology in the New Yorker.  Not only is it a fascinating read, it has generated a story from NPR on how it was written. In September 2010, Wright, his editor, the New Yorker fact-checking team and the magazine’s editor-in-chief, David Remnick, met for eight hours with the spokesman [...]