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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/3/2008
Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We're Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered
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Our preoccupation with the immediate crisis of financial capital is causing us to overlook the bigger crisis in America's human capital. While we commit hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street, we're slashing our outlays for public education. Education is largely funded by ...
Which Muslim Capital to Choose?
boomantribune.com - 12/4/2008
Which Muslim Capital to Choose?
— boomantribune.com — So, Obama wants to give a speech in a Muslim capital sometime in his first one hundred days. What capital should he select? I think that all depends on what kind of message he wants to convey. Overall, it seems to me that he should select an Arab ... (more) Which Muslim Capital to Choose?

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Big Bail
Talking Points Memo — Bob Reich explains why Wall Street beats out schools for the bailout bucks.

Listen to Prof. Reich
HorsesAss.Org — ... Robert Reich sounds the alarm nationally about the fact we are bailing out Wall Street even as our education system faces drastic cuts. ...

Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We’re Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered
The Hollywood Liberal — Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We’re Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered Our preoccupation with the immediate crisis of financial capital is causing us to overlook the bigger crisis in America’s human capital. While we commit hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street, we’re slashing our outlays for public education…. This entry was posted on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 5:35 am and is filed under Main Blog (All Posts) . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We’re Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered
The Hollywood Liberal — Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We’re Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered Our preoccupation with the immediate crisis of financial capital is causing us to overlook the bigger crisis in America’s human capital. While we commit hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street, we’re slashing our outlays for public education…. This entry was posted on Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 5:34 am and is filed under Main Blog (All Posts) . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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