“the mainstream is more obsessed with the cost of a haircut than the cost of persistent childhood poverty to our society—estimated to be a $500 billion yearly loss to our economy. They show more interest in the expansion of a candidate’s living quarters than the expansion of wealth and income gaps, now record-breaking, between rich and poor in our country. It would be great—21 months after Hurricane Katrina put a global spotlight on American poverty—to see our national press corps and news networks devote as much energy to issues of race, class and poverty as to sniggering over one candidate’s personal wealth and alleged hypocrisy.” "Edwards is alone in convincingly criticizing corporate-drafted trade treaties and talking about workers’ rights and the poor and higher taxes on the rich."Jeff Cohen
2007-06-03
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