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Wealth, Weddings, Poverty and Philanthropy -- A Weekend Rolling in American Philanthropy

Maxim Thorne | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Carnegie, Higher Education, Philanthropists, Rockefeller, Yale, Politics News
Maxim Thorne

Why is John and Heather's wedding and what John's studying now important? Why is remembering the philanthropic investment in transforming and liberalizing education so important?

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Field of Dreams: Explaining Economic Mobility Through Baseball

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Downward Mobility, Upward Mobility, Carnegie, American Dream, Social Mobility, Congress, Obama, Middle Class, Vanderbilt, Baseball, Horatio Alger, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

America is galloping backward to a degree of class immobility unseen since pre-World War I Europe. Almost everyone can expect to die now in the same class they were born in.

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Can India Move From Gilded Age to Progressive Era?

Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Progressive Era, Gilded Age, India, Social Change, America, Mellon, Jayant Sinha, Panic of 1893, JP Morgan, Carnegie, Financial TImes, Flagler, Rockefeller, Ashutosh Varshney, Mark Twain, World News
Madhavi Bhasin

India has, in the past, overcome apocalyptic prognosis regarding its survival as a single democratic nation. Hopefully, the Asian elephant can now work its way out of its own Gilded Age.

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Plutocracy: The Rich Elite and the Rest of Us

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Lenzner

The controversy over the disparity between the rich and the rest of us has hit the covers of two emblematic fountains of ideas; The Economist and The Atlantic Monthly.

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Music Unites Expands Efforts in 2011 With Nationwide Instrument Drive

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empowering Women, Axe, Aimee Mann, Music Education, Peter Yorn, Hard Rock Cafe, Non-Profits, J Mascis, The Roots, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Instruments, The Who, Bronx Zoo, Epic Records, Ascap, Carnegie, Choir, Chicago, Music Unites, Benito Juarez Community Academy, Michael Dorf, Reni Lane, Bowery Presents, Mtv, Living Colour, O.a.R., Education News
Michelle Edgar

In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an id...

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SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 05.25.2011

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Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

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Advice for the Unknown Lottery Winner

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

After having overcome trillion-to-one odds, the idea of running through the money would seem silly to most winners. However, studies shows that 90% of people blow all their money within five years of winning the jackpot.

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