Word: socialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Inspired by the experience, the three friends - who shop at Walmart regularly, sometimes while wearing ugly clothes - went home and created the website. They asked their friends to submit photos and naively assumed that no one outside their social circle would ever see it. "Honestly," says Andrew, "we didn't think we'd even update it very often...
...Adam Coutts of Oxford University, one of the authors of the Lancet study, tells TIME that recessions have other deleterious social effects not directly related to health and that measuring an economic downturn's overall health impact is a vexed undertaking. "It is true, for instance, that mortality rates reduced significantly during the Great Depression, but that era also saw the rise of fascism, followed by a world war," he says. "So there's no simple way to measure the impact of recessions on a population's welfare." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...wide range of research studies of rich countries that have revealed that greater national wealth, by nearly any measure, does not lead to better human welfare." He believes that governments in wealthy countries should take steps to rein in excessive wealth among individuals and redistribute resources through social spending. While he acknowledges the political difficulties of wealth redistribution, he says, "As a doctor, I recognize that an unequal society is the biggest contributor to ill health. It's my obligation to make that known...
...news article "HKS Social Space Cut Draws Concern" incorrectly referred to Harvard Kennedy School student David E. Baumwoll as a graduate of the Masters in Public Policy program. In fact, Baumwoll is in his second year of the program...
...party, nevertheless, appears ready to meet the big challenges his new administration will face. With an economy in crisis, record unemployment and faltering welfare systems, the DPJ is already looking for all the help it can get. The party is expected to meet on Monday with the leftist Social Democratic Party and the conservative People's New Party to discuss the possibility of forming a coalition. As Hatoyama said Sunday night, "We have been fighting, thinking we have to change politics, and now we are about to realize it." The Japanese people have set the ball rolling...