http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/19-1
Evidence that the Meritocracy is Made Up of Poor People
Many wealthy Americans believe that dysfunctional behavior causes poverty. Their own success, they would insist, derives from good character and a strict work ethic. But they would be missing some of the facts. Ample evidence exists to show a correlation between wealth and unethical behavior, and between wealth and a lack of empathy for others, and between wealth and unproductiveness.
The poor, along with a middle class that is sinking toward them, make up the American meritocracy. Here is some of the evidence.
1. The Poor Don’t Cheat As Much
2. The Poor Care More About Other People
3. The Rich Focus on Me, Me, Me
4. The Poor Give a Greater Percentage of Their Money to Others
5. Entrepreneurs are in the (Sinking) Middle Class
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Posted: 2014/05/20 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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Worrisome win for Nationalist Conservative Neo-Liberals in India
Posted: 2014/05/20 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: BJP, conservative, India, Narendra Modi, neo-liberal
Thanks to Doug Henwood for this:
http://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned
The Emperor Uncrowned: The rise of Narendra Modi
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What Should it Mean to Be Haitian in 2014
Posted: 2014/05/19 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoExcellent article by Pascal Robert!
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Data shows the depravity of the education racket at state universities
Posted: 2014/05/19 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: 1%, capitalism, Coalition Against Corporate Higher Education (CACHE), education system, executive pay, inequality, Institute for Policy Study (IPS), justice, racket, state universities
Thanks to Coalition Against Corporate Higher Education (CACHE) for this
http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/one_percent_universities/
The One Percent at State U
By Andrew Erwin and Marjorie Wood
New report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.
State universities have come under increasing criticism for excessive executive pay, soaring student debt, and low-wage faculty labor. In the public debate, these issues are often treated separately. Our study examines what happened to student debt and faculty labor at the 25 public universities with the highest executive pay (hereafter “the top 25”) from fall 2005 to summer 2012 (FY 2006 – FY 2012). Our findings suggest these issues are closely related and should be addressed together in the future.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, executive pay at “the top 25” has risen dramatically to far exceed pre-crisis levels. Over the same period, low-wage faculty labor and student debt at these institutions rose faster than national averages. In short, a top-heavy, “1% recovery” occurred at major state universities across the country, largely at the expense of students and faculty.
- The student debt crisis is worse at state schools with the highest-paid presidents. The sharpest rise in student debt at the top 25 occurred when executive compensation soared the highest.
- As students went deeper in debt, administrative spending outstripped scholarship spending by more than 2 to 1 at state schools with the highest-paid presidents.
- As presidents’ pay at the top 25 skyrocketed after 2008, part-time adjunct faculty increased more than twice as fast as the national average at all universities.
- At state schools with the highest-paid presidents, permanent faculty declined dramatically as a percentage of all faculty. By fall 2012, part-time and contingent faculty at the top 25 outnumbered permanent faculty for the first time.
- Average executive pay at the top 25 rose to nearly $1 million by 2012 – increasing more than twice as fast as the national average at public research universities.
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