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Massachusetts

‘Middle cities’ residents deserve the same economic opportunities as Bostonians

A Brookings Institution study made headlines in January when it found that Boston has the worst income inequality of any major American city. In doing so, the study obscured the far more punishing reality of Massachusetts cities outside Boston, which have seen far less economic growth and today resemble the

Massachusetts

Is income inequality in Boston morally wrong?

Last week, readers of the Boston Globe were treated to yet another article lamenting the fact that Boston, according to an analysis of 2014 Census data by the Brookings Institution, is the U.S. city with the greatest income disparity between the top 5 percent of income earners and the

Immigration

Is income inequality morally wrong?

Over the past several years, elites in America have unleashed a tidal wave of propaganda about the curse of economic inequality in our country. President Obama has made it one of his signature themes, calling income inequality "the defining challenge of our day" in a widely reported speech

NewBostonPost

Scrooge in schools could teach many lessons

"Merry Christmas!" was popularized in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the familiar tale of Scrooge, a heartless, penny-pinching rich businessman bereft of Christmas spirit. Scrooge sees the error of his ways when, on Christmas Eve, he is haunted by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley,