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Rising up by Degrees: "Educated, Unemployed, and Frustrated" in the New York Times

You’re a college student; this one will likely hit close to home. How do you feel about your future on the other side of graduation? Matthew C. Klein, a research associate with the Council on Foreign Relations, describes the harsh realities facing some recent graduates and makes possibly unsettling comparisons with similar populations in other countries. This essay was published as an op-ed piece in the New York Times on March 20, 2011.

Read it here: Klein, "Educated, Unemployed, and Frustrated" 

 

Mother Jones Takes a Peek at the Economy: "It's the Inequality, Stupid"

We all know that the U.S. economy is hobbling along, and it’s also no surprise that some segments of the population are better off than others. Yet the tables and charts compiled by political journalists Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot for Mother Jones demonstrate with painful clarity the disparities between the rich and the un-rich in the present-day U.S.A.

Read it here: Mother Jones "It's the Inequality, Stupid"