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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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Gentrification
July 1, 2017 Gentrification Gentrification comes from the old French word genterise, which means “of gentle birth.” The term refers to the process of renovating poor urban neighborhoods. Gentrification can be seen as an attempt to beautify or civilize the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Abandoned Homes, altruistic, beautification, better themselves, Boarded Up Businesses, Change, Cheap Land, Chicago, City Centers, deindustrialization, Denver, displacement, Economists, education, Evolve, Facelift, fad, Fashion, Flip, gentle, gentle birth, Gentrification, Ghetto, Health Care, homeless, inflation, Inner City, invest in people not places, investments, Jamba Juice, Laundromat, Mansfield, MIddle Class, Monett, New, new problems, Old, Poor, Poverty, profit, Property Taxes, Racism, replacing poor, Rich, rough birth, Shameless, Shelby, Starbucks, Subtext, Suburban, taxes, The Great White Flight, theme, trend, Urban Decay, wage gap, Yoga Studio
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker By Barbara Belford, 1976 Bram had a frigid wife. He went to prostitutes—especially during the menstruation period. Bram wanted to grow as a person, but he felt he couldn’t. Bram was aware of the subtext in his own … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Uncategorized
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Twenty-Something
Twenty-Something Twenty-Something: Why Do Young Adults Seem So Stuck by Robin Henig and Samantha Henig came out in 2013. Many Millennials are living in their parent’s basement, eating ramen noodles and sometimes even on food stamps. Why is … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, History
Tagged 11 Jobs, 1946, 1954, 1956, 1965, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1990, Age 26, Age 27, Age 30, Age 34, Age 40, Age 44, BA, Babies, Baby Boomers, Bachelor's, Bad Economy, Careers, Children, Choice Overload, College, Deadline For Growing Up, education, Emerging Adulthood, Extended Adolescents, Facebook, Family, Fertility, Food Stamps, Friends, Generation X, Generation Y, Internet, IVF, Jobs, Kids, Language Courses, Lazy, MA, Marriage, Master's, Memorize Countries, Millennials, Parent's Basements, Ramen Noodles, Recession, Robin Henig, Samantha Henig, Subscribe to the Economist, Travel The World, Twenty-Something, Why Young Adults Seem Stuck
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If Only
If Only If Only: How To Turn Regret Into Opportunity by Neal Roese, PhD came out in 2005. In his book Roese introduces the ideas of Counterfactuals. A Counterfactual is a product of what might commonly be called imagination. Counterfactuals … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged ability to control, Alternative History, Bigger Picture, Blame, Career, conversation, Counterfactual, Depression, Diary, Don't Dwell, Don't Overreact, education, Emotions, Ferrari, Finances, Friends, Gwyneth Paltrow, Health, Healthy, If Only, In-Laws, judgment, Neal Roese, Negative Emotion, Not An Elegant Sight, out of one's ability to control, Parenting, productive, regret, Relatives, Resilient, Sliding Doors, Speculative Fiction, Spirituality, spring back fast, Star Trek, Teenager, The City on the Edge of Forever, Therapy, Tragic Experience, Unhealthy, What if
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