In the 2008 election, lower-income Americans voted at significantly lower rates than higher-income Americans. This was not, in itself, news. Just as in 2004, more than 60 percent of voters came from families above the median household income of $50,000. That family income is a significant predictor of individual voting is a long-standing and...
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Newspapers across the country are ceasing publication or being downsized under pressure to keep profits and circulation up. Jobs, local news coverage, and investigative journalism hang in the balance. David Simon, Creator of Acclaimed HBO Series “The Wire”: As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out Testifying before a Senate hearing on the “Future...
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