Day: July 31, 2004
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the bombs bursting in air
Jonathan Delacour provides an Australian perspective to all the flag-waving in an American election year. Lots of refreshing viewpoints and facts, with a few jolts along the way, like this: the United States: …accounts for 5 per cent of the world’s population, 20 per cent of the world economy, and fully 50 per cent of…
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Book: Nickel and Dimed
Next time you want to complain about your job (assuming you have one), pick up Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. The author spends one year trying to live on minimum-wage jobs alone and can’t pull it off. So much for the minimum wage actually adding up to something…