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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Economic Human Rights (37): Basic Income as an Alternative to the Welfare State
(source unknown) The welfare state is the name for a collection of different government policies and programs designed to help the poor. Those policies and programs may include healthcare benefits, unemployment benefits, old age pensions, child benefits, some types of … Continue reading
Posted in economic human rights, economics, poverty
Tagged Basic income, Dorothea Lange, incentives, risk, unemployment benefits, unemployment line, welfare, welfare state
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Political Graffiti (153): Saint Redundus
(source, source) More on homelessness and unemployment. More political graffiti.
Posted in housing, political graffiti, work
Tagged graffiti, homelessness, redundant, saint redundus, unemployed
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Various Announcements
The New School for Social Research in NY will hold a conference called “Human Rights and the Global Economy”, at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, on November 9 and 10, 2011. Topics include social justice, the global economy, … Continue reading
Gender Discrimination (28): Occupational Sex Segregation as One Cause of the Gender Pay Gap
It’s common knowledge that women tend to earn less that men, even in countries that pride themselves on their respect for gender equality. Here are the data on the gender pay gap in the U.S.: (source) One of the causes … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (147): Casualties in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Between 2004 and 2010
Based on the Wikileaks data, this map by Max Braun dramatizes the number of casualties by way of “drops of blood” on the location of each casualty: (source) It’s obviously an exaggeration. And there’s nothing wrong with that in this … Continue reading
Posted in data, human rights maps, international relations, war
Tagged afghanistan, blood, casualties, human rights, iraq, mapping, maps, middle east, terrorism, war on terror, Wikileaks
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Human Rights Video (22): Landmines
WARNING: this video is disturbing, and meant to be. (imagine if land mines were a part of your everyday) From an advocacy standpoint, this is probably way over the top. Some would call it badvertising and, indeed, I don’t see … Continue reading
Why Do We Need Human Rights? (26): Human Rights and Diminishing Marginal Utility
The marginal utility of something – usually a consumption good or a service – is the utility (pleasure, happiness, wellbeing or whatever) gained from an increase in the consumption of the thing. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that … Continue reading
Economic Human Rights (36): Homelessness in the U.S. by Gender, Race and Age
There are roughly 750,000 American citizens who are homeless on any given night, with one in five of them considered chronically homeless. That’s a homelessness rate of one for every 400. Who are these people? As you can see from … Continue reading
Posted in data, economic human rights, economics, housing, poverty
Tagged homelessness, race, United States
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