"Data show an income gap widening among college graduates."
Rich-poor gap gaining attention
Remarks by Greenspan reflect concern that disparities in wealth may
destabilize the economy. By Peter Grier
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0614/p01s03-usec.html?s=hns
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When I was a college student in the 1950s there was much less of a gap between us college students and people doing physical labor -- we students did it ourselves during our summer vacations because the pay was good. The sidebar effect was that we prospective college grads felt in touch with those with whom we had worked and many of us cared about the well-being of our entire society. The consequences emerged in the 1960s with the civil rights acts, introduction of medical care for many if not all who could not afford such, public housing construction, affordable higher education one way of another, e.g. the opening up of CUNY so that the children of blue collar union members and others could get college educations.
Now I fear that we are losing our social coherence as the greedy grab ever more than their fair share and leave far too many to fend for themselves, i.e. die prematurely on their own.
See Krugman's column (below) to the effect that we need to follow Europe at long last and introduce at least universal medical care as was done there after WW2. Then the greedies of the American Medical Association (to which caring doctors would not stoop to belong) blocked universal medical care in the 1950s. Now it is apparently the diverse medical insurance operations that do their best to maintain their portfolios while denying medical insurance coverage wherever they can! It is now a full time job to collect what is owed from such as Cigna (also one of those major corporations also charged with under funding its employees pensions yesterday in a NY Times article). Making money should not be done out of people's health needs!
OP-ED COLUMNIST
One Nation, Uninsured
By PAUL KRUGMAN
With the cost of health care exploding and the number of
uninsured growing, the time will soon be ripe for another
try at universal coverage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/opinion/13krugman.html?th&emc=th
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"A war is only just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AcademicFreedom
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
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Remarks by Greenspan reflect concern that disparities in wealth may
destabilize the economy. By Peter Grier
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0614/p01s03-usec.html?s=hns
...........................................................
When I was a college student in the 1950s there was much less of a gap between us college students and people doing physical labor -- we students did it ourselves during our summer vacations because the pay was good. The sidebar effect was that we prospective college grads felt in touch with those with whom we had worked and many of us cared about the well-being of our entire society. The consequences emerged in the 1960s with the civil rights acts, introduction of medical care for many if not all who could not afford such, public housing construction, affordable higher education one way of another, e.g. the opening up of CUNY so that the children of blue collar union members and others could get college educations.
Now I fear that we are losing our social coherence as the greedy grab ever more than their fair share and leave far too many to fend for themselves, i.e. die prematurely on their own.
See Krugman's column (below) to the effect that we need to follow Europe at long last and introduce at least universal medical care as was done there after WW2. Then the greedies of the American Medical Association (to which caring doctors would not stoop to belong) blocked universal medical care in the 1950s. Now it is apparently the diverse medical insurance operations that do their best to maintain their portfolios while denying medical insurance coverage wherever they can! It is now a full time job to collect what is owed from such as Cigna (also one of those major corporations also charged with under funding its employees pensions yesterday in a NY Times article). Making money should not be done out of people's health needs!
OP-ED COLUMNIST
One Nation, Uninsured
By PAUL KRUGMAN
With the cost of health care exploding and the number of
uninsured growing, the time will soon be ripe for another
try at universal coverage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/opinion/13krugman.html?th&emc=th
--
"A war is only just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AcademicFreedom
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.legendgames.net/blognews.asp
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