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War in Iraq and Afghanistan: What’s the Price Tag?
Over $1.43 Trillion (As of
2/14/13)
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Racial Injustice
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Special Announcements
This is why we need
peer review:
Austerity:
Planned Poverty
New!! A must see - Why Washington is corrupt.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Incredible data on
inequality:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
Updated
reports of abuse inside juvenile facilities:
http://nospank.net/rcntnews.htm
Crime Mapping in Los
Angeles:
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/
Within South
L.A.'s killing zone, a haven from violence
See also this interactive map of homicides:
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/blog/page/1/
In the News
New!! New study reveals that rich kids make huge progress in
educational attainment which poor kids fall further behind:
No Rich Child Left
Behind
New!! Click here and make sure you watch the cartoon:
What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know About the
2010 Gulf Spill
New!!
Explosion in West, Texas - another example of corporate negligence
Iraq, Sandy Hook
and America
The War on Drugs Is a
War on Kids
California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low
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due in large part by decriminalizing pot
http://cjcj.org/files/CA_Youth_Crime_2011.pdf
Two stories about
Corporate Tax Cheats -
Paul
Buchheit reports that
64 corporations paid just over 8% in taxes during a five-year
period; according to David Cay Johnston
"There are 6
million corporations in America, but 2,600 of them, a tiny number
out of 6 million, own 80 percent of the business assets in America."
And another by Paul Buchheit:
Five Ugly
Extremes of Inequality in America
Registry
tallies over 2,000 wrongful convictions since 1989
Report highlights abuse in for-profit prisons for kids. Click
on "Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" above
Report on the "working poor," who now constitute 31% of all
families. Click on "Inequality in America" on the left.
Are
Zero Tolerance Policies
Effective in the Schools?
An American Psychological
Association report.
Mentally challenged man freed 14 years after false confession
To all who watch CSI programs,
read this:
The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of
Death Investigations Puts the Living At Risk
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Commentaries:
America is Ranked 29th in Child
Well-Being
(4/24/13)
The
Boston Bombings
(4/23/13)
Meanness and Violence
(4/18/13)
The rich get richer while
everyone else struggles
(3/4/13)
Debtor's Prisons Alive and Well
(2/4/13)
Gun Nuts Run Amok
(12/15/12)
Legalized Pot and
Easing of ‘Three Strikes’ Law Mark Unique Election
(11/8/12)
Romney, the 47%
and Juvenile Justice
(10/2/12)
Jails and the
Bail Industry
(9/25/12)
Race and Pot
(7/24/12)
The Gateway
Myth
(7/17/12)
Slavery’s Legacy Alive and Well in Louisiana
(6/24/12)
America the Unequal
(5/23/12)
Class Counts
(5/6/12)
The Trayvon Martin Case is
Nothing New
(3/23/12)
School
Discipline and the Prison Pipeline
(3/15/12)
And the Rich
Get Richer
(3/8/12)
Cops in
Schools
(2/12/12)
Archives
Research Articles:
The American Legislative Exchange Council
(11/16/11)
Punishment for Sale
(11/7/10)
From Poorhouses to Jails: Same Function, Different Time
(4/27/10)
Our Punitive Society
(11/11/09)
Exit Exams, the Prison Pipeline and
Getting Tough Anyway
(11/9/09)
Conservative, Liberal and Radical Views of Crime
(9/17/09) - revised and updated on 2/20/11
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