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Poverty Machine

• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• Is "growing the pie" sufficient? Feb 17, 2013
• Gems from George: Progress, and Poverty Feb 7, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 16 — Proudhon Jan 16, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 12 — Cushman Jan 12, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part II (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Hugh Pentecost, on the connection between crime and poverty Jan 6, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 26 — Cardinal Vaughan Dec 26, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Harpers: Monopoly is Theft Oct 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 16 — Plutarch Oct 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 3 — Marmontel Oct 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 2 — Jefferies Oct 2, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
• Bob Andelson: An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11, 2012
• To fight the effect, while feeding the cause ... and our laws Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions #18 — Gambling Feb 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 13 — Edward Carpenter Feb 13, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• Today's economic problems aren't new Jan 8, 2012
• Social Problems Dec 18, 2011
• The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
• Charity or Justice: How We Treat the Poor Dec 3, 2011
• Young Men and Their Opportunities - 1896 and today Dec 2, 2011
• The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1% Nov 18, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• Wealth Concentration data Oct 16, 2011
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4, 2011
• THE RIOTS Aug 9, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25, 2011
• Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10, 2011
• Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23, 2011
• Financing the Subway Jan 16, 2011
• Progress, Charity, — and Justice Jan 16, 2011
• What Tolstoy Taught: The Great Iniquity Nov 28, 2010
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• The November U.S. Senate Elections Oct 15, 2010
• Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4, 2010
• How to Increase America's Saving Rate: Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending Sep 15, 2010
• Could a Peanut Paste Called Plumpy'nut End Malnutrition? - NYTimes.com Sep 5, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Egg Factory Aug 29, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Some random thoughts on Monopoly and Life Aug 21, 2010
• Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
• The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, by Josh Kosman Aug 6, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Income Concentration: Piketty & Saez data through 2007 Jul 18, 2010
• Wealth concentration in China exceeds US Jul 7, 2010
• Why Do People Become Terrorists? Jul 1, 2010
• A Neuroscientist, Nature and Nurture, and America's Children in Financial Distress Jun 30, 2010
• Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18, 2010
• The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• The oil and gas billionaire, and estate taxes Jun 14, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• What's the real cost of living, in Pennsylvania? Jun 4, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• 47 percent Apr 26, 2010
• Looters in Loafers - Krugman Apr 24, 2010
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9, 2010
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
• Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Monopoly History Mar 30, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
• A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
• U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 2010
• Debt in America Feb 26, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• 2009Q4 Labor Underutilization Problems of US Workers by 2008 Income Decile Feb 13, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
• Children in Poverty, Children in low-income families Dec 26, 2009
• First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
• Another Retirement Study Nov 1, 2009
• Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 Nov 1, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
• Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
• Conservatism Aug 5, 2009
• The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
• The Just-Getting-By Cost of Living in West Virginia in 2009 for young families Jun 24, 2009
• High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 2009
• Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
• Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
• Yertle the Turtle, and Tax Reform May 11, 2009
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• The Rich List: Easy Come, Easy Go? May 9, 2009
• The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
• Neuroscience and social deprivation | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told | The Economist May 5, 2009
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12, 2009
• Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Child Labor in 1906; Child Poverty in 2009 Feb 15, 2009
• A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 2009
• Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
• Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
• Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Father of the ecosystem: Joseph Priestley Jan 17, 2009
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 2008
• A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
• Time to Tackle US Poverty? Dec 3, 2008
• Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 2008
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? Nov 10, 2008
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Ben Franklin, technological progress and moral progress Nov 7, 2008
• A new film: "The End of Poverty?" Nov 7, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the "wealth" — this time, let's talk about income Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth Oct 30, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? Oct 28, 2008
• Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
• Pew study: Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life Oct 28, 2008
• Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part I: how does the US compare to the rest of the world Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" Sep 26, 2008
• When a mortgage rate adjusts, who gets what? (#2 in the Mortgage series) Sep 25, 2008
• Let's talk about mortgages - #1 Sep 25, 2008
• Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 2008
• We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
• He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• Living paycheck to paycheck, living bonus to bonus, and trickle-down economics Sep 23, 2008