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...less than $1 per day, and half of sub-Saharan Africans are under-nourished, making the region “worse off nutritionally today than it was 30 years ago,” according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. These Africans cannot survive the illusion that the affluent lifestyles of people in the so-called “developed world” have no connections to the extreme hunger and poverty that have become part of their everyday lives...
...country. It is the publication date: 1991. One would hope that 14 years might be enough time to correct the growing injustices of our education system, but public policies enacted since then have simply worsened the problem. Our schools remain largely funded by local property taxes that disproportionately fund affluent school districts, and our urban schools are just as racially segregated now as they were in 1954. Now, under No Child Left Behind, schools in poorer districts are also punished monetarily if their students do poorly on standardized tests, essentially taking away resources as punishment for not being able...
...Times’ mistake doesn’t really fit their M.O. I don’t think the Times did this because they secretly have a Republican bias. That would be less frightening. I think the Times is just reflecting a popular fallacy: the myth of the affluent middle. Brooks and his cronies have been peddling their skewed statistics so long that even the liberal establishment has adopted them. Harvard students are uniquely susceptible to this kind of distortion for two related reasons. First, when Harvard students look around every day, we see wealthy liberals. Only 24 percent...
...middle class makes way more than the American middle class. Harvard has the remarkable ability to make the wealthy feel poor. Unfortunately, this can lead Harvard students to think of the middle class exactly as the Times does. We look at the middle of our classes and see fairly affluent individuals whose economic interests aren’t even close to those of the real middle class...
They came from affluent suburbs and from the poorest parts of the Ninth Ward, homes far up north and homes levelled to the bare concrete foundation, but all were faced with the same immediate questions: how to secure a dorm room on an overflowing campus, find extra-long sheets, and pick classes to fulfill the requirements of their empty New Orleans schools. Hurricane Katrina has made them freshmen for the second time...