50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag, New York Times Mapping Poverty In America – Interactive Graphic To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19…
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Brilliant move by the Obama campaign: President Obama’s team is offering Mitt Romney a deal on taxes: Publicly release five years of returns, and the Obama campaign will drop its insistence for additional tax information.[TPM] Romney-Ryan responded with a diatribe of falsehoods: It is clear that President Obama wants nothing…
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From ThinkProgress: [Yesterday] mark[ed] the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law, creating arguably America’s most successful social program. “We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have…
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Mittens took great pains to keep his VP pick under wraps, even hiding the man out in the woods: Ryan returned home in the early afternoon and went inside through the back as he was locked out of his side door, telling reporters who stood watching on the sidewalk he…
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