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...Blame it on Japan's ever reluctant consumer. Household spending has long been the missing piece in Japan's recovery puzzle: every time sustainable domestic demand seems to be around the corner, wallets snap shut again. Part of the problem this time is that companies have been loath to share their record profits with employees. "Economic recovery started in early 2002, and worker income still has not risen," says Jeffrey Young, head of economic and market analysis at Nikko Citigroup in Tokyo. As a result, domestic spending in the third quarter edged up only...
Looking back on it all, however, I’m saddened that the average, non-council, non-newspaper Harvard undergrad was largely deprived of the really absurd, interesting stuff. Why? You could blame The Crimson for not giving in to sensationalism, or chalk it up to general student apathy about council-related news. But either way, people really missed out. In the interest of never letting the smallest story fall through the cracks, here’s just a sampling of the quirks of this winter’s council campaign...
...where do we ultimately pin the blame...
...Blame national politics. The current administration recently proposed slashing $1 billion from Section 8, the nation’s affordable housing program. Similarly, if adequate resources were actually being allocated to mental health issues and rehabilitation programs—not squandered on unnecessary tax cuts—maybe we wouldn’t have such a shameful pandemic on our hands...
...Blame no one. Could also read: “Blame everyone.” The problems associated with homelessness are institutionally embedded in our society. Whatever remedial programs we institute on a micro level can’t possibly overcome the fact that this is a tremendous, historical macro problem. Our inability to eliminate homelessness (like our inability to tackle poverty in general) isn’t a failure of American society; it is a fixture of American society...