An excerpt from the Hug the South rant:
Southern America has a lot of North in it, and more of it every year. People aren’t shuffling off to Buffalo anymore; they’re sloughing off Buffalo and moving to sunnier climes. Out of the top ten states that Americans are moving out of, nine are Northern (and the […]

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Right wing pundits continue to insist that there’s nothing much wrong with the American health care system. A recent survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that focuses on health care issues, says differently. According to the survey of adults living in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, […]

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In the 2004-2005 school year, the latest year the U.S. Census Bureau has information for, there were 75,200,000 public school students in the United States. The census bureau also found that, during that school year in the United States, it cost an average $8,701 per student per year to give a child a public […]

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Look in the corporate consolidated media and you’ll see lots of articles about African-American economic success. These anecdotes may be true in themselves, but the larger picture shows something quite different. A new study, released today, indicates that the ethnic economic divide has grown larger since the 1970s, not smaller. In 1974, […]

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