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Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
Michael Sherradden’s Compounding Interest
Two decades ago an obscure academic revolutionized thinking about poverty. Now his insights might just save the middle class.
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It’s Not As Bad As You Think It Is
One of President Clinton’s main challenges in his second term is going to be trying to move the United States away from a self-conception as a nation in crisis. It’s a problem partly of his own making. In his 1995 State of the Union address, for example, delivered right on the heels of the big […]
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Middle Class Hero
Letting his ego out for a trot, Kevin Phillips begins Boiling Point by observing that during last year’s presidential campaign, Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Tom Harkin, Mario Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Lloyd Bentsen, Douglas Wilder, and Dick Gephardt all demonstrated that they had either read his last book, The Politics of Rich and Poor, “or drawn […]
