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“It is easy to charm a person who talks too much: all you have to do is listen.”
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
“America’s student-loan debt machine is now larger than Americans’ combined credit-card debt.[11] Think about how many college graduates have amassed five- and six-figure student-loan debts, and yet a third still earn less than half the nation’s median wage.[12] While economists argue that a four-year degree is still the best long-term path forward,[13] only half of Americans participate in any form of higher ed at all. When they pulled the ladder of upward mobility away from low-wage families, they took away the thing that soothes misery and distress; they took away their hope. What the free-market boosters failed to account for is that, without the potential for advancement and the general sense that fairness and justice will prevail, our social compact is screwed. The more divided our education levels, the more divided our nation.”
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
“For blue-collar workers left to fend for themselves, many of them now working service jobs for half their previous pay and no benefits, the shift to unfettered free trade was like opening a velvet box and finding a turd inside. The Democratic strategist David Axelrod had a better (or at least more polite) metaphor: “I’m so proud of my association with Barack Obama, but the Democratic Party was the party that brought and heralded free trade. We lied to people and said all boats would be lifted somehow. Well, it was a tide that lifted a lot of yachts. A lot of the smaller boats got shipwrecked. A lot of people’s lives were changed for the worse.”[14]”
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
“When I left for college in 1982, the Pell Grant paid the entirety of my tuition, my room and board, and even my textbooks—an investment in my future that I have paid back through taxes many times over. When you consider that the government recoups the money spent on a typical Pell grantee, through taxes on their increased earnings, in just ten years,[10] the gutting of Pell’s purchasing power is extremely shortsighted. But the plundering of this federal program, birthed in the last gasp of America’s War on Poverty, is also rarely discussed.”
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
“the late 1990s, average tuition in the United States had more than doubled from when I went to school, while the value of the top Pell award dropped 25 percent. When President Bill Clinton touted his Hope Scholarship and related tuition tax credits as a doubling of federal funding for financial aid, it was a sleight of hand, catering solely to middle-class students who were already going to college. That same decade, Clinton oversaw the country’s catastrophic entry into NAFTA in 1994 and paved the way for China’s admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001. He predicted that offshoring would eventually prove to be a “win-win” for American workers. Our country still suffers the fallout of those disastrous decisions, which were cheered by business schools and Nobel Prize–winning economists, including several who have since recanted their pro-offshoring views.[”
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
― Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Mock Printz 2027
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Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more
Mock Newbery 2027
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A discussion group that reads, suggests, and enjoys current children’s literature, while searching for next years Newbery Award winning books.
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LibraryLinkNJ Share Your Reads: Adult & YA Crossover Titles
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This is the GoodReads group to share titles that are discussed at our monthly LibraryLinkNJ Share Your Reads programs for Adult & YA titles. ...more
LLNJ Share Your Reads: Children's & YA
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A place for all the books we share and discuss at the LibraryLinkNJ monthly "Share Your Reads: Children's and YA" book discussion. If you're an NJ Lib ...more
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