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What’s it called when only rich(er) people run for office?

America. From Juhem Navarro-Rivera at Demos: …analyses looking at the type of people who are elected to office at the federal and state levels often find that most elected officials come from the upper economic stratum of American society. The reason for the socioeconomic biases among those elected to office is related to the barriers that people …

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Rich people have paid sick days. Poor people don’t.

So says my friend, Doug Hall, very eloquently, here. He writes: One significant reason to pass paid sick leave legislation is that failing to do so further exacerbates disparities based on income. The Economic Policy Institute shows in stark terms that “rich people have paid sick days [while] poor people do not.” While only one …

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In Canada? The Liberals won.

The party of Justin Trudeau won the majority of seats in Canada’s federal election on Monday. What does this mean? Well, bye-bye, Steven Harper, for one. And Trudeau needs to choose a cabinet. And this, from The Guardian: During the campaign Trudeau promised that his first legislation as prime minister will be to raise taxes for …

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To write about poverty, you really need to be rich

Read the fabulous Barbara Ehrenreich‘s Guardian essay on covering poverty from a privileged perch. The author of “Nickel and Dimed,” “This Land Is Their Land” and other wonderful books, essays, and magazine articles writes: There are many thousands of … gifted journalists who want to address serious social issues but cannot afford to do so …

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