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The Power of "Why?" - asking questions is more powerful than memorizing answers.Three years ago, Ross A. Kearney II wanted to build a trade school. Kearney, mayor of the coastal city of Hampton, Virginia, thought a new trade school would curb the high drop-out rate in a community where nearly half the residents live in poverty. He took his pitch to a city-appointed commission. ...
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Personal Democracy ForumTime for a Break With both me and Micah taking some vacation time off, the blogs are going to go into what's more or less hiatus mode. We'll pick things back up again at our normal pace on Monday, the 17th. In the meantime, we thought you might just enjoy this soothing ocean view. Read more ...
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Some U.S. bank pay unmoored from performance: CuomoBonuses paid to executives at nine banks that received U.S. government bailout money in 2008 were greater than net income at some of the banks, the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday. Cuomo, in a report on months of investigation into compensation paid by the ...
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Obama and Neoliberalism: Whither the American Left?The triumph of neo-liberalism on the other side of the Atlantic may be explained - like almost everything else in American history - by inflation and racial conflict. The 1970's were years of historic compromise: Blacks were integrated into the great American family in a legal sense, but at ...
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37Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected AgeFrom Publishers Weekly Fine outlines strategies for "connected activism" in this idealistic, lucidly written account about using the Internet to build up networks among activists who can pool information and other resources to help create lasting solutions that address the roots of social ...Giorgio Bertini added to Citizen Oversight 9 months ago
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Geithner Needs to Go! - Dave Chandler's EarthsideEarthside Comments: The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, should resign or President Obama should fire him. As head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner was one of the architects of the AIG bailout under the Bush regime ... along with his income tax problems, he was a ...
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Karl Polanyi's Concept of EmbeddednessThe logical starting point for explaining Polanyi's thinking is his concept of embeddedness. Perhaps his most famous contribution to social thought, it has also been a source of enormous confusion in understanding his argument. Polanyi starts by emphasizing that the entire tradition of modern ...
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