American Decline: Causes and ConsequencesNoam ChomskyAlakhbar English
Venezuela is the exception with a constant (1980s) and falling (1990s) wage inequality, the causes of which are likely to be found in the growth implosion that occurred after the end of the 1970s which particularly affected wages in the middle groups. In addition, within-group inequal- ity...
As people age, however, the intensity of belief necessary for either hypocrisy or moralism tends to decline, and among adults a high correlation exists between cynicism and age. First, almost all groups in American society favor the basic liberal-democratic values of the American Creed. People ...
the costs of regaining our energy security will be paid by Americans to Americans. We will be creating jobs, not exporting our dollars overseas. We will be counteracting recession -- not fueling it. We will be attacking one of the root causes of our inflation -- not increasing it. It wil...
"WhilepartofthedeclinecanbeattributedtotheGreatRecession," theauthorssuggest,"thisphenomenontookplaceoverthecourseofseveraldecadesandisnotnecessarilyrelatedtotheeconomicconditions . "Sowhataccountsforthisphenomenon? AroundupoftheoriesbyBradPlumeratT heWashingtonPostincludedtheagingoftheUSworkforce, thefurtherriseof...
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Disentangling the causes of support for collateral consequences is important because debates about policy justifications are spilling outside academia into the courts, most notably in Second Amendment jurisprudence. Federal law imposes a blanket, lifetime ban on firearm possession for anyone convicted of ...
In the Neotropics, then, the numbers of migrant species and individuals, and their proportion in the local avifauna, decline southwards from Mexico (Slud 1976), but with big variations between habitats (Terborgh 1980). This parallels the north-south decline in migrant numbers that occurs in su...
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they can have detrimental consequences for thousands of low-income communities and BIPOC across the planet as it relates to the distribution and siting of amenities (e.g., parks; transit service) and disamenities (e.g., industrial facilities). Additionally, there is a growing body of work tha...