@nils_gilman Assuming the boundary transgressions which change political history? The role of the policy intellectual and prophet, akin in this regard. Though, frankly, mass systematized torture is a typical response to the claim that economic logic destroys the poor rather than poverty.
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Friedman and Pinochet sitting together.
The cheery claims of 'officials' and the policy community that capitalism, despite its 'problems', has global poverty on the run? An accounting fantasy unjustified by the facts, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. #unitingtheglobalpoor
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Tweet from the Kairos Center today. Mississippi, with a black population over 33%, and West Virginia, 96% white, have life expectancies 4-5 years lower than the national average. The biggest similarity - they are the two #poorest states in the country. The same system keeping us poor is shaving years off our lives.