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...current student at KSG and the Business School, spoke of the “open-source movement,” where campaigns enable individuals to independently endorse candidates through innovative technologies like Facebook, YouTube, and text messaging. Anderson said this will transform the 2008 campaigns. Volpe said this shift will require strategists to “cede some control in order to create a relationship with young voters and let them persuade their friends and their peers in ways which they’re used to communicating.” But the panelists stressed that delivering a younger generation...
...income-distribution shift doesn't explain all the improvement in the government's financial situation: corporate tax receipts have risen a lot since 2003 as well. That gain is the result of a postrecession recovery in corporate profits, plus the expiration of some Bush tax breaks--plus, speculates University of Michigan economist Joel Slemrod, a decrease in corporate tax avoidance in the wake of the scandals of 2002. It's widely assumed that this corporate tax boom will soon tail...
...take part of the credit for it: lower tax rates on the highest earners give them less incentive to shelter income from taxes. But a similar high-income tax boom happened in the late 1990s, so Bush can't take too much credit. He might not want to: the shift in incomes toward the top may be great for the federal budget. Whether it's a good thing for the U.S. beyond that is an entirely different question...
Fitzgerald, 46, developed his sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...average,” the social history of public opinion polls tells a different story.The acceptance of the idea that an individual needs quantitative data in order to understand his or her own community—and sometimes even him- or herself—represented a cultural shift in how Americans in the 20th century understood their society, argues University of Pennsylvania historian Sarah E. Igo in “The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public.”Though the book isn’t beach reading, its look at the development...