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Saturday, March 23, 2013

2,243 Additional Gun Deaths in the 3 Months Since Newtown


Is this really the American dream?


   
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/gun-deaths-us-newtown_n_2935686.html



Plus, there's this searchable database:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

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Labels: American Dream, gun control, gun deaths since Newtown, gun deaths since Sandy Hook, guns, Newtown, NRA, Sandy Hook

Monday, March 4, 2013

Wealth Inequality in America

This excellent 6-minute video takes a fairly complicated issue, and uses simple charts and visuals to make it really easy to understand.

Where do you fit in?

Were you surprised?

Is this how you think it should be?  
  




Then there's this:

The last two decades were great...if you were a CEO or business owner or banker or trader.
Not if you were anyone else.







Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11#the-last-two-decades-were-greatif-you-were-a-ceo-or-business-owner-or-banker-or-trader-not-if-you-were-anyone-else-5#ixzz17mMHL4yc
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Labels: income distribution in U.S., income inequality, Top 1%, top earners, wealth inequality
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