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Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org
Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org
Sam Pizzigati has a great post today. He starts by asking, “What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms?”
The answer to that question seems obvious but the research studies he puts forward are astounding. Inequality turns out to be a predictor of health as well as life expectancy in the views of epidemiologists:
American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist
American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist.
An Attack on Reproductive Health Care: The New Domestic Gag Rule
On Saturday night, the House passed the largest health care overhaul bill in 40 years. Many of AAUW’s key priorities were included in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), including c
Contexts: Disney Princesses Deconstructed
Sociological Images has another fun post (remember the Supreme Court, “I’m not a doctor but I play one on the Supreme Court.)
Now they have taken a look at Disney princesses.
See the full post here : Contexts
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Do Married Women Want Their Husbands to Cheat?
From the “some people have too much time on their hands” department. Evolutionary Psychology. Say what?
From the Psychology today blog
The Scientific Fundamentalist
A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature: Author Satoshi Kanazawa is an evolutionary psychologist at LSE and the coauthor (with the late Alan S. Miller) of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.
Do Married Women Want Their Husbands to Cheat?
Married women face a dilemma. It’s not that they want their hus
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
From Sociological Images, all 7 parts of this video on how the marketing industry advertises to children which then impacts how adults spend their moey, over $700 billion a year.
Watch all the rest at Contexts
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