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Tag: poverty

  • Review: Hillbilly Elegy

    Review: Hillbilly Elegy

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    My first comment on this book is about the price. For a book whose purported audience is the working and welfare poor from Appalachia, the price set at 15.99 for ebook is a slap in the face. I don’t usually review a book on price, but in this rare case, it matters. JD Vance’s treatise,…

  • Redefining Poverty

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    This is a continuation of the thoughts I began in last week’s post on Ebola, which was really more about people, and I continue here, with one more at some point this week (or next) to wrap up my ramblings. By the way, if you are worried about Ebola bringing on a pandemic, I urge…