Tag: Cooper Union
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A Plug for Unions
The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…
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Not getting the Times
Yesterday, the leading Democratic candidate for President, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, came to New York City to deliver a major speech on the economy right at the time when the economy appears to be teetering on the edge of a deep recession. He was introduced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg who himself had flirted with…
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‘Renewing the American Economy’
Text of Sen. Barack Obama’s speech at Cooper Union in New York on Friday, March 27, 2008, as prepared for delivery and provided to The New York Times by his campaign. I want to thank Mayor Bloomberg for his extraordinary leadership. At a time when Washington is divided in old ideological battles, he shows us…