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Current Events: Exploring Economic Inequality January 31, 2019

The shrinking of the middle class and economic inequality in the country is one of the many topics you can regularly find in the news. It is, in fact, a global issue. Economic disparity has been an ever-growing dilemma for thousands of years.

While it seems like a bleak problem, there are many thought leaders—and everyday people—trying to address it, educate others, and find solutions. READ MORE

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This is the Author | James and Deborah Fallows May 8, 2018

“I think there were two ideas behind this book. One of them is simply the joy of exploration. Before Deb and I began these travels around the country we’d been living for a number of years in China. And there we had a bias in favor of just going whenever we could–on trains or buses or horses or yaks–to see remote things. We had the opportunity to do that in the U.S. because of our long background with a small airplane, so we thought: let’s try it here. The other, as time went on, was to sort of grab people by the lapels and tell them what we had seen.”

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