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The booming stock market is of little solace to middle-class Americans, who continue to express concern about their financial security and the overall condition of the U.S. economy. The poor are even more bearish, surveys show.
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Charles Murray knows that people who read fat books of social criticism aren’t normal. They weren’t normal when the books had titles like “The Affluent Society,” “The Hidden Persuaders” and “The Organization Man,” and they aren’t normal today.
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What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year?
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Conservative scholar Charles Murray on his book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America From 1960-2012." Watch the full interview tonight on Bloomberg Television at 7pm and 10pm. (Source: Bloomberg)
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“I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure,” says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.”
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“Study after study shows that the earlier a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road,” said U.S. President Barack Obama in Feb. 14 speech in Decatur, Georgia. “Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on -- boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, reducing violent crime.”
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California Governor Jerry Brown, along with lawmakers and other statewide elected officials, will take a 5 percent pay cut, according to the commission that sets their salaries.
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The biggest problem with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s views on women isn’t his unfortunate comment about keeping them in binders. It’s that his concept of the family is troublingly out of date.
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This much we know: College pays.
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In the mid-1990s, even as crime rates across the U.S. were falling, a group of prominent criminologists and sociologists came along with the intention of scaring the hell out of us.
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