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The article challenges the common narrative that rural Americans are filled with rage and hatred towards liberals and coastal elites. The author, a liberal university professor, conducted extensive research and interviews with rural Americans and found that they are not driven by anger or resentment. Instead, they care about the same things as urban Americans, such as family, friends, health, and happiness. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding and respecting diverse perspectives, and calls for a reset in the conversation about rural America. [Extracted from the article]

This document titled "THE WEEK" provides a collection of brief news items on various topics. It covers a range of subjects including political controversies, legal scandals, international relations, tax policy, labor unions, electric vehicles, airline mergers, energy policy, academic misconduct, anti-Semitism, protests, and the retirement of the CEO of the National Rifle Association. The document presents these topics in a concise and factual manner, providing library patrons with a snapshot of current events from diverse perspectives. [Extracted from the article]

Benn Steil's biography, "The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century," explores the life and impact of Henry Agard Wallace, a prominent figure in American politics from 1933 to 1948. Steil argues that if Wallace had become president after Franklin Roosevelt's death, the postwar world order would have been drastically different, with no Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, or West Germany. Wallace's tenure as agriculture secretary during the New Deal era saw radical policies, such as ordering farms to plow under crops and slaughtering millions of pigs, which set a precedent for agriculture subsidies. Additionally, Wallace's association with mysticism and his controversial foreign policy views, including his admiration for the Soviet Union, have been scrutinized. [Extracted from the article]

Mounk is laudably concerned about the negative impact that identity-oriented thinking can have on individuals and communities. Mounk declares that the identity synthesis has a "rich intellectual history." BOOK REVIEW Escaping the Identity Trap The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, by Yascha Mounk (Penguin Press, 416 pp., $32) The past few years have been rough for conservatives with a commitment to liberty. Throughout the third section of The Identity Trap, Mounk expounds on the value of free speech, race-neutral policies, and cultural integration, urging progressives on each front to let go of their extremism and be reasonable. [Extracted from the article]

Musk, who has had more than a few feuds on Twitter - and feuds with Twitter - may have begun the takeover as a hectobillionaire's lark, but he appears to be sincere in his commitment to work toward a genuine culture of free speech and transparency at Twitter, suggesting that the firm should make some of its algorithms and content-moderation practices public. After Disney said it would fight a new Florida law on school curricula - which requires instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity to be age-appropriate - Governor Ron DeSantis and the state's Republican legislature passed a new law removing long-standing legal privileges the company has enjoyed in the state. Across Africa, he argued, there is poverty not because of long-concluded colonial oppression but because too many African countries are ruled by dictators and autocrats, some of them naïve idealists who wrecked their countries' economies by means of socialist central planning and some of them simply corrupt kleptocrats whose misgovernance and rapacity prevented investment and economic development. His country, like his state, is better for the multitudes he contained. [Extracted from the article]

Republicans in the state are pinning their hopes on Herschel Walker, a former NFL star and a University of Georgia football legend who has Trump's endorsement. Johnston said he intends to vote for Walker because, as a Republican and a Trump supporter, "I'll vote for whoever Trump tells me to." ARTICLES Trenton, Ga. THERE are two pieces of white paper taped to the front door of Jeffrey Johnston's sales office, which is draped in a Donald Trump banner. [Extracted from the article]

The good news is that it may still be possible to reverse these vicious cycles, and the hardest step has in fact been a cherished objective of small-government conservatives for many years. Markets were never the central problem, but they have magnified the impact of other mistakes that were made, in both public policy and culture. This problem is perplexing to small-government conservatives, because they are accustomed to treating market growth as an unambiguously good thing, and indeed as the solution to a wide range of social problems. Progressives, meanwhile, reach cheerfully for their wish list and start demanding free maternity care, paid parental leave, and universal pre-K. Only the small-government conservatives feel awkward at this juncture: They like babies, and human civilization, but they don't like lifestyle-invasive state programs, or steep hikes in entitlement spending. [Extracted from the article]

Stettheimer, Bloemink says, is a satirist and observer par excellence but a blinkered one. Florine Stettheimer: A Biography, by Barbara Bloemink (Hirmer, 440 pp., $29.95) BARBARA BLOEMINK'S new biography of the artist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) reveals an acquired taste, and a unique one. Yes, Bloemink tells us, Stettheimer was rich. In the last few years, as Stettheimer has received more recognition and been the subject of more shows, I've heard "There's nothing like Florine", merging persona and painting. [Extracted from the article]

The author emphasizes the key role of innovation in addressing social issues in the U.S. in light of the solutions proposed by woke activists. Topics discussed include the importance of awareness about the problems facing the country such as racism and poverty, failure of woke activists to consider the effect of their proposed solutions on poor people, and the reason why wealth cannot be achieved by capital accumulation but by innovation.

Then the lower class would have shelves that groaned with relevant tomes. SECTIONS IREGRET to inform you that people are buying books for the wrong reason. As the New York Times headline on the new statue put it: "Move Over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan Has a New Female Lawgiver.". [Extracted from the article]

Young people vote for Macron or Mélenchon, old people vote for Macron, those stuck in the second phase vote for Le Pen. From the decline of the Left to the fracture of the Right to the triumph of Macron's centrist party, Houellebecq's predictions have proven prescient. This year's French presidential elections reinforced Houellebecq's claim that class antagonism shapes political behavior in predictable albeit tragic ways. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses equality in America and the reasons why the author claims that social and economic opportunities rise and fall in unison as of 2015. The social conditions of lower income individuals in the U.S. are examined, along with social and economic mobility and research about marriage and parenting. Employment and civic engagement in the U.S. are assessed, as well as a correlation between poverty and social problems.

The article discusses the effective economic policy to improve the status of poor people in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the relation of the Social Security disability system to welfare, the role of failing families in income inequality and poverty, the importance of improving education of poor people, and the main obstacle to change.

The article offers briefs and comments on U.S. and international events, as of April 2014. It defends U.S. Representative Paul Ryan over criticism he has received for his recent remarks on poor people and U.S. welfare policy. It notes a U.S. District Court decision in favor of petroleum company Chevron in litigation over its alleged environmental damages in Ecuador. It discusses planned changes to the SAT college-entrance test.

The article offers political news briefs for the U.S. as of March 2012. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the U.S. 2012 presidential election, said in an interview that he is not concerned with the very poor in the U.S. A federal court in California has ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional in the state. U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed a budget to the U.S. Congress.

The article discusses several aspects of a Great Enrichment global ideas movement as of 2015, and it mentions political revolutions in Europe in 1848, the capitalism-related views of the late economists Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and economic developments involving poor people in places such as China and India. Income increases in the U.S. are examined, along with the economic conditions of citizens in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

The author provides an opinion on the cause of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. Beginning in the 1990s, the U.S. government began adopting policies meant to increase home ownership especially among poor people and minority groups. To do this, they required banks to loosen their lending and underwriting standards. This allowed people with very little income and no down payment to buy houses they could not afford.

A series of editorials are presented on political events in the U.S. in 2008. General George Casey is portrayed positively by newspaper reporter Bob Woodward for his ideas about the Iraq War even though he opposed a troop surge that gave more success to U.S. forces. 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's plans for the country will require higher taxes. Democratic conventions frequently make use of poor people for political advantage.

The article focuses on the mileage tax proposal made by U.S. Department of Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg as part of his effort to improve the public transportation system. Topics discussed include the car-pedestrian accident equity plan of Buttigieg, ways to properly assess a mileage tax, and the effect of mileage tax on rural residents and the poor.

The author criticizes what he calls crony consumerism, or the practice of the federal government providing for easier access to credit to lower-income people in the belief it will promote economic activity while reducing poverty. Among examples he cites are policies of the U.S. Federal Housing Administration that contributed to the near-insolvency of the government-sponsored financial enterprise Fannie Mae in the 1980s.

The article reports on various political developments in the U.S. and in Europe, as of May 29, 1995. It states that the number of poor people in the U.S. had risen, according to the Census Bureau. The Federal Communications Commission has declared that News America Corp. is violating a rule against foreign ownership of broadcast properties. The victory of Jacques Chirac in the French presidential elections signifies an era of conservative dominion in the state. The British government distributed an educational video in commemoration of the V-E Day.

The article deals with problems concerning the legal services provided by the Legal Services Corp. (LSC) for the poor in the U.S. In fact when the Legal Services system works in the real world, its chief victims are the poor, whether it be rural farmworkers, urban tenants of public housing or low-income people in general. There are several cases which prove that farmworkers are as much the victims of the cruel game as are farmers. Needless to say, the urban poor have suffered equally at the hands of Legal Services.

This paper presents contradictory opinions on the article "The War on the Poor," by Rael Jean Isaac which appeared in the May 15, 1995 issue of "National Review." It refutes Isaac's characterization of the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act as a forgotten statute. It describes how the Jamaican savings accounts work. It concludes that Isaac has a distorted and paranoid view of legal services corporations. The author argues that what she wrote on legal services programs was accurate.

The article presents news briefs on political and social issues in the U.S. as of November 7, 1994. The delayed action of Republican legislators have failed to oppose the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act at the U.S. Congress. The Census Bureau has reported that more U.S. people lived in poverty in 1993. A tentative contract was signed by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani that would authorize principals to order school custodians to execute their jobs. Gay rights groups claim that the murder of two homosexuals in Laurel, Mississippi should be classified as a hate crime.

This article discusses the political conditions in Haiti and Cuba. The belief that authoritarian countries such as Haiti are easier to reform than Communist countries like Cuba is not a new one. In practice, the world has turned out to be more complicated than that. The author suggests that totalitarian Cuba will be much easier to sort out than authoritarian Haiti. Cuba may be poor and oppressed, but at least its people are relatively well educated, largely urban, and, vigorously entrepreneurial. Its middle class is not entirely suppressed and may well bounce back the moment socialism is lifted from its shoulders. In the case of Haiti, the large rural brethren are still mired in ignorance and magic. In a country where voodoo remains a potent political force and spells are more feared than legal writs, any "return to democracy" is pure wishful thinking.

The article emphasizes the poor method of measuring poverty in the U.S., citing 1992 data from the Census Bureau. The Census Bureau estimates that 14.5 per cent of the U.S. population lived in poverty in 1992. Since 1980, the rate of poverty in the U.S. has hovered around 14 per cent. In reality, the nation is doing a good job at addressing the problem, but by definition virtually all of the efforts are excluded from the data because poverty is measured on the basis of pre-tax money income, excluding capital gains. In addition, the data also exclude a big share of the government's efforts to ease poverty. The Census Bureau takes into account only cash grants and excluding Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and rent subsidies. By including such items, the poverty rate can be reduced from 14.5 per cent to 11.7 per cent.

Argues that while drugs are bad, the worst thing about them is they are illegal and therefore cost too much in the U.S. Observation that rich people in capitalist America can afford the cost of addiction; Discrimination against poor people; Argument that addicts are made desperate and dangerous because the substance they crave is illegal, unavailable, and expensive.

The article discusses ways on how to help poor people to have better homes in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the key reasons why people move to seek better housing, the use of tax credits to help businessmen to become more pro-active in assisting their workers to relocate for work, and the key aspect of housing that decreases mobility.

The author discusses poverty in the U.S. as of mid-2015 and argues that the growing isolation of poor people in the U.S. has deteriorated traditional self-help networks such as extended families, ethnic communities, and churches. The article discusses the economic indicators the Supplemental Poverty Measure, (SPM) and the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) used by the U.S. Census, full-time employment in the U.S., and the social conditions of poor people.

The article looks at how poverty is defined and interpreted, as of 2014. He recounts his own experience of living on very little money while a student. He notes that poverty is relative, with those classified as poor in rich countries having far more goods than many people in poor countries. He presents a discussion of the subject by 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson.

The article focuses on Bill de Blasio, candidate for New York City Mayor in 2013, and what New York City would be like under his leadership. Topics include his plans regarding New York City public finance, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the treatment of poor people in New York City.

The article discusses U.S. taxes and the poor, in response to remarks made by 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney about people who do not pay income taxes. The author argues that Romney's remark was simplistic, but that programs such as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and the earned-income tax credit (EITC) should be reexamined. Republican attitudes to social programs, poor households, and the child tax credit are discussed.

The author offers opinions on U.S. socioeconomic conditions and politics and government. He cites his experiences as a passenger on a cross-country Greyhound bus voyage to support various contentions including that U.S. poor people are more socially diverse than is commonly thought, that they are inherently apolitical and that drug abuse is a major social problem.

The article argues that the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will harm the poor by forcing millions more of them into the U.S. Medicaid program, which the author calls the worst health-care system in the developed world. He also points out that the Act will likely compel insurers to raise premiums they charge customers.

The article presents a humorous discussion about the journal's fictional post-2016 U.S. presidential election ocean cruise, and it provides information about the program of events for the voyage. Low-income and unemployed white working-class people are addressed, along with conservatism, 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, and former Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's potential election as the next U.S. president is assessed.

The article criticizes the papal global warming encyclical "Laudato Si'" issued by Pope Francis in mid-2015, particularly concerning the Pope's connection between environmental deterioration and worsening human and ethical degradation. According to the article, the Pope argued that the depletion of environmental resources adversely impacts the poor and will lead to war involving nuclear or biological weapons, and that he also criticized the concept of technocracy.

The author discusses the government takeover of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 and analyzes the causes of their failure. Jim Johnson, former chief executive officer (CEO) of Fannie Mae, established it as a lender to low income households and set goals for the number of loans it would sponsor each year. This practice was also adopted by Franklin Raines, who succeeded Johnson.

This article presents information on the nutrition programs run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is concluded that these programs are in need of modernization to meet the current need for less food consumption by large numbers of large low-income Americans. The federal food-stamp program was designed to ensure that the poor do not spend money budgeted for food on other things; it now provides benefits to about 20 million people a month. Government studies show that the program raises calorie consumption by as much as 10 percent. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children was started in 1972 as a modest two-year pilot program, and now provides monthly food packages to more than 7 million women and children.

This article explains why some U.S. citizens become poor. The article begins with a discussion of the link between social mobility and poverty. It then proceeds to show that the U.S. poor are not necessarily poor. He cites the fact that 70 percent of impoverished U.S. households owned a car in 1995. According to the author, many of the U.S. poor are neither victims of temporary misfortune nor beneficiaries of legal misclassification. He argues that they always exist as is sin. Lastly, he suggests that the key to ending poverty is a free economy.

The article criticizes the plan of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley to reduce poverty in the U.S. Bradley's plan for poverty reduction is nothing but an ill-advised call to increase the minimum wage of the parents of poor children and consequently raise the bar for a government subsidy of $14 billion. But these two measures would not solve the cause of poverty, the single parenthood. Based on statistics, children born to a single parent are most likely to be poor that those with two parents.

The article criticizes the report on poverty in the U.S. by the Census Bureau in 1999. It describes the criteria for judging the level of poverty in the country and the living conditions of the poor. It also enumerates the modern conveniences being enjoyed by the so-called poor such as car ownership and the access to color television and essential needs. It also highlights the results of other surveys that contradict the notion that 35 million citizens are living in the poverty level. The poor, however, suffer from one major nutrition-related health problem, which is obesity.

The article presents comments on the views expressed by Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector on the proposed block grants for poor citizens of Michigan. According to Rector, some conservatives remain doubtful about the no-strings-attached block grants. The push for no-strings-attached block grants is based on the premise that they will free the states to implement creative reforms that work. Ultimately, the U.S. government should get out of the poverty business altogether. The states should raise money for their own programs and be free to partner with the private sector and encourage private charities to minister to the poor.

Several letters to the editor in response to articles in previous issues including "War on the Poor," by Rael Jean on the May 15, 1995 issue, "Word of Mouth," by Rich Lowry in the May 1, 1995 issue, "The Misanthrope's Corner," by Florence King in the May 1, 1995 issue, "Blowing in the Wind," by Harold Johnson in the May 15, 1995 issue and "Points of Order," by Peter W. Rodman in the May 1, 1995 issue are presented.

The article traces the history of the income tax in the U.S. It relates that the income tax has grown from a modest tax to a heavy burden on the citizens of all income levels, because in the beginning it was explicitly directed at the rich. But the income tax ceased to be an elite tax during World War II. The poor, simply because they dominate the population, have more ability to pay than the rich. By 1970, almost all of them had their own income taxes and the bulk of the income-tax revenues come from the middle class.

This article comments on the public image of the U.S. Republican Party. Based on a poll conducted by "USA Today" in November 1994, the Republican Party has a 70 percent favorable rating. On almost every issue, the public trusts the Republicans than the Democrats. However, the image of the Republicans lags in one area, social class. According to a Luntz Research survey, Democrats were successful in representing the middle class. The post-election focus groups of pollster Stan Greenberg has elicited complaints against Republicans because they are viewed as the party for the rich or successful business people only. In connection to this, Republicans are expected to be forced into arguing that giving money to the rich is beneficial for all, while taking money from the poor will benefit the poor.

The article focuses on the immigration problem of California. It reveals two issues the became the focus of the state's complaints. These are the large numbers of migrants it must absorb and the costs they impose on taxpayers. An analysis of the data provided by the U.S. Census leads to some conclusions, including the poor condition of recent migrants in the state and increasing rate of high school dropout among male immigrants in the state. It also gives the reasons for the state's attraction among immigrants with poor economic potential. One is its accommodation of refugees who have low skills. And another is its proximity to Mexico.

The article criticizes the 1992 annual poverty report of the U.S. Census Bureau. It defines poor as a family of four making less than $14,335. It criticizes the failure of the Census Bureau to include welfare and food, housing and medical aid in its calculations. It explores the inaccuracies presented in the report. It claims that the inaccuracy of the poverty report can be attributed to its origins. The report was created by the U.S. administration during the tenure of former President Lyndon B. Johnson to promote welfare spending.

The article presents information on society and politics around the world as of September 14, 1992. The British press reports about an intimate conversation between Diana, Princes of Wales and her allegedly would-be paramour, James. Susan Trento's book "The Power House" has included a story about U.S. President George Bush's affair with former aide Jennifer Fitzgerald. A study authored by Christopher Sarlo of the Fraser Institute found that no more than one million Canadians are poor when measured against absolute standard of need.

Discusses the relative tax burdens carried by the rich and the poor in the United States. Suggestion by some television networks that the 1980's as a decade of greed in which a party for the rich was paid for by the middle class; Statistics from the Congressional Budget Office correcting this impression; Description of what really happened to taxes in the last decade and a half.