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Tag: Economic inequality

Trying to make sense of Colombia’s “Strata” economic system

September 9, 2014 Christopher Burke International 5 comments

When I first moved here, the Colombian concept of Strata was one of the most difficult things for me to get my head around.

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“The two Brazils:” How World Cup preparations highlight economic disparities

March 10, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Sports, Uncategorized Leave a comment

With soccer’s World Cup just a few months away—this time in Brazil—the story behind the story is beginning to emerge. The sports story will,

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Invisible and hurting

January 29, 2014 Susan Cunningham Activism, Charity & Justice, Cities, Economy, Homelessness, Missouri region, Poverty Leave a comment

Many of my friends have been incredibly generous with donations of food, money, toiletries and blankets to the St. Louis Homeless Winter Outreach volunteers. 

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Socio-political messages from an unlikely place: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”

January 7, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Humor, Literature/Arts/Film, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve just spent two hours I’ll never get back watching “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” We had intended to go to a showing of

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The White Tiger: fiction from India, cautionary tale for US

March 30, 2011 Ann Mandelstamm Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

The White Tiger, the novel by Aravind Adiga which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008, has been described as black comedy and a

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Confederate-soldiers fighting for whom

The Civil War, the NFL, the haves and the have-nots

February 2, 2011 Arthur Lieber Economy, History, Sports Leave a comment

A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out a “myth” about the Civil War that relates to why middle and low income people

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