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Rich and Poor Voters in 2008
fivethirtyeight.com - 3/9/2009
Rich and Poor Voters in 2008
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I posted some maps the other day showing estimates of who would've won each state in the recent presidential election, based on a multilevel model of state and income categories, fit to data from the 2008 Pew pre-election polls. I realized that the maps could be usefully augmented with ...
Times have changed and now the poor get fat
fivefeetoffury.com - 3/6/2009
Times have changed and now the poor get fat
— fivefeetoffury.com — Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other... people's. I prefer to call them "the broke." A lot of (really naive) people are wondering (or pretending to wonder, when they're in public) ... (more) Times have changed and now the poor get fat

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nytimes.com - 3/9/2009
Why the Poor Stay Poor
— nytimes.com — The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson probes the hopelessness of black urban America. >... (more) Why the Poor Stay Poor
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There is a war against the rich, but it's being waged by other rich people. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 3/11/2009
There is a war against the rich, but it's being waged by other rich people. - By Daniel Gross - ...
— slate.com — Last week, I wrote that the Republican claim that Obama is fighting a war against the rich... was bogus. Over the weekend, I thought better of it. It turns out there is a war on the rich. Only it's not being waged by vicious overlords in Washington ... (more) There is a war against the rich, but it's being waged by ...
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Toiling for suburban mediocrity and hating on the liberal elite: The only path to heaven
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... soul less suburban home.  The liberal elite are largely silent on this issue of higher taxes for people who makes more than $250,000, in part because most of us aren’t in that tax bracket and know we never will be.  Apparently, that’s not true of the people kicking a fit over higher taxes, people who just a few years ago were eating up class warfare against people who make a lot less money than them, but are somehow the “elite”.  (For more, check out the blogging on this issue ...

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John Rich: Shuttin Detroit Down (Video and Lyrics)
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