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The President, Fox News and the Poor – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/opinion/charles-blow-the-president-fox-news-the-poor.html This week, during a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Obama lambasted the

From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation | Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/blog/from-ferguson-to-baltimore-the-fruits-of-government-sponsored-segregation/ Posted April 29, 2015 at 2:46 pm by Richard Rothstein In

Bay Bridge news gets worse: Tower rod fails key test – SFGate http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-news-gets-worse-Tower-rod-fails-key-6250031.php Photo: Paul Chinn / Paul Chinn / The Chronicle Image 4 of

Unemployment to drop to 5.2% in April | Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/jobs/posts/2015/05/05-jobs-forecast-barnichon This post discusses my monthly update of the Barnichon-Nekarda model.  For an introduction to

Ben Carson: US should rethink Supreme Court review of laws – The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ben-carson-us-should-rethink-supreme-court-review-of-laws/2015/05/10/debd1ba4-f72f-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says the United

Campus Debates on Israel Drive a Wedge Between Jews and Minorities – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/us/campus-debates-on-israel-drive-a-wedge-between-jews-and-minorities.html LOS ANGELES — The debates can stretch from dusk to dawn,

Scientists May Have Just Found A Solution For Deadly Superbugs http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7228766 Anna Almendrala Healthy Living Editor Shutterstock / Michal Kowalski A computer program designed by

U.S. News Health Care Index – US News http://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-index/articles/2015/05/07/us-news-health-care-index The new annual index measures health care’s changing impact on the U.S. economy. By Lindsey Cook,

The water still flows down from the shrinking shores of Hetch Hetchy to the sprinkler-fed lawns of San Francisco city parks. But after the fourth

Business Standard-Global decline of large herbivores may lead to empty landscape http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/global-decline-of-large-herbivores-may-lead-to-empty-landscape-115050300407_1.html The decline of the world’s large herbivores, especially in Southeast Asia, India and