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Your Take: The Fair Way Back From Recession
One of Occupy Wall Street’s greatest achievements thus far has been its aggressive — and very public — underscoring of what we have all known for a long time: America is a nation of tremendous, heartbreaking inequality. But in the midst of the public debate over whether the movement’s aims are always crystal clear, what…
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Your Take: Is Public Transit a Civil Right?
At 5:30 a.m. each workday, when Natasha Walker, 22, gets deposited at a bus stop on her side of Little Rock, Ark., she begins her 60-minute wait for the bus that ferries her to a day care worker’s job on the other side of town. “I used to drive her there because I didn’t want…
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President Obama's Black Agenda
I have to admit I was a bit perplexed when I was a panelist recently at Tavis Smiley’s “We Count: The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” forum in Chicago, which focused heavily on what President Barack Obama has not done for the black community, rather than the significant down payment he has made in…
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