from truthdig:
American Decline Is Crushing the Middle ClassPosted on Nov 2, 2011
By Richard Reeves
LOS ANGELES—By chance, the three things that landed in my inbox—that’s a polite euphemism for "pile"—on Tuesday were these:
The Hill, one of Washington’s all-politics-all-the-time journals, with a headline that read: "Most Voters Say the U.S. Is in Decline."
Under that was Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum’s new book, "That Used to Be Us—How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented."
And there was a tear sheet from the Los Angeles Times that hit me especially hard. The headline: "Access to Community Colleges May Be Rationed: After years of cuts, the state’s open-door system must change, a task force suggests." ..........(more)
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