Economic Archive

  • According to the 1870 federal census, one percent of the people owned 72 percent of all the wealth in the great industrial city of Pittsburgh.  What’s more, just half of...

    Economic Inequality Matters

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
    According to the 1870 federal census, one percent of the people owned 72 percent of all the wealth in the great industrial city of Pittsburgh.  What’s more, just half of...

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  • When the slaves of Haiti won their independence from their French masters through war in 1804, Napoleon and his French government demanded that the ex-slaves pay reparations in the amount...

    Haiti's Historic Debt Load

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    When the slaves of Haiti won their independence from their French masters through war in 1804, Napoleon and his French government demanded that the ex-slaves pay reparations in the amount...

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