On 7/31/13 12:45 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > As I wrote back in December 2011 (“NYC: more unequal than Brazil”), > for all the glitz, New York City is full of people with very modest > incomes. The city’s median income a couple of years ago was $28,213, > on a par with Greece. The poorest tenth of the city’s population has > a cash income (not counting public benefits) of under $1,000. > > What are the rest of us? Chopped liver? One of the crimes of the 1% > is effacing the lives of the 99%, and it’s not helpful to repeat this > sort of thing uncritically.
I strongly suspect that the author identifies New York as Manhattan. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
