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Personal opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the wealthy and hurts the poor
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: That is FRESH AIR. I am Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. My visitor, Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, begins his new ebook with a easy query – why is there a lot poverty in America? The USA is the richest nation on earth, he writes, with extra poverty than every other superior democracy. A lot of the ebook offers with the various issues that maintain folks poor – housing segregation, predatory lending and financial institution prices, the decline of unions and tax insurance policies that favor the rich and promote inequality. However Desmond additionally focuses on ways in which prosperous Individuals, together…
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Somebody buried in an avalanche has just a few minutes to reside. This park helps you follow how one can save them
Scott Benge was caught in a nightmare. He had imagined it many instances, however now that he was residing it, it was far worse than he might have ever imagined. He was buried by an avalanche, trapped beneath 1000’s of kilos of snow. I could not transfer a finger. I imply, I could not transfer something, he stated. It was New 12 months’s Eve morning. He had gone with a good friend to a preferred ski spot behind the small neighborhood of Ophir within the San Juan Mountains. Because the snow broke beneath Benges skis, it made a sound like thunder and pushed him down the mountainside. Benge tried to…
