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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What Science Tells Us About Poverty
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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What Science Tells Us About Poverty
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Christian Exoo and Calvin F. Exoo, Truthout: Poverty has been identified as a causal factor in lower IQ and psychiatric disorders. What can this tell us about public policy and the minimum wage?
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22031-a-free-and-open-internet-the-latest-from-the-frontlines
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Melia Ungson, Next New Deal:</strong> Beyond concerns about having adequate supplies of water for drinking, industry, and agriculture, priorities to protect ecosystems and water quality are being put to the test. Even though California has managed with droughts in the past, this is a new scale.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7E1ErKx87LW80EET3SlYUocbPWZq2uc1" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Making Contact, National Radio Project:</strong> On this edition of Making Contact we explore how the privatization of public education is playing out across the country and how students and teachers are fighting back.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qvcD0ePMXOHT%2FUm1OojNRiBytd%2FC7hkD" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Listen to the Radio Report</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NRHl6I%2BJL1e%2Fm1wNv8fiSIcbPWZq2uc1" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Four Signs Billionaire Tom Perkins Has Lost Touch With Reality (and Why It Matters)</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kevin Mathews, Care2:</strong> American multi-billionaire Tom Perkins can't seem to avoid controversy lately. Whether he's comparing himself to a Holocaust victim, calling for mass disenfranchisement, or even just writing erotica, the headlines are sure to follow.</p>
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