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Enfim, a modernidade parece querer dispensar o casamento e a família de sua função histórica básica: garantir a nossa sobrevivência.
Mary Del Priore • Histórias íntimas - 3 ª edição: Sexualidade e erotismo na história do Brasil (Portuguese Edition)
For each dollar earned in 2005, the top 10 percent received 48.5 cents.
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
En Afrique subsaharienne et dans le sud de l’Asie, le temps consacré à l’économie primaire est particulièrement visible car, lorsque l’État ne joue pas son rôle et que le marché est inaccessible, les foyers doivent satisfaire directement bien davantage leurs besoins.
Kate RAWORTH • La Théorie du donut
Still, large-scale immigration—5.2 million immigrants in the 1880s alone, on an 1880 population base of 50 million—exerted constant downward pressure on entry-level wages. (But upward mobility was quite high among some immigrant groups. German immigrants in Poughkeepsie moved up the occupational ladder more than twice as fast as native-born workers
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The median home price in the U.S. is six times the median annual income3—fifty years ago it was two times—and the share of first-time buyers4 is barely half the historical average and the lowest on record. Medical debt is the leading cause5 of consumer bankruptcy; half of American adults would not be able to cover a $500 medical bill without taking
... See moreScott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Eviction affects the old and the young, the sick and able-bodied. But for poor women of color and their children, it has become ordinary. Walk into just about any urban housing court in America, and you can see them waiting on hard benches for their cases to be called. Among Milwaukee renters, over 1 in 5 black women report having been…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The answer we long ago accepted went like this: The reason we need dwelling subsidies is to provide for that part of the population which cannot be housed by private enterprise. And, the answer went on, so long as this is necessary anyway, the subsidized dwellings should embody and demonstrate the principles of good housing and planning. This is a
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The economic costs of abandoned housing alone justifies the need for more insight into ways of addressing the problem. The Government Accountability Office reports that cities spend anywhere from $233 to $1,400 per property on temporary exterior maintenance costs, such as boarding up broken windows and otherwise securing these abandoned structures.
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
