“Iowa Town Turned into ‘Open-Air Prison’” and other links…
DemocracyNow.org: “Three months after the largest immigration raid in US history, when nearly 400 workers were arrested at a meatpacking plant, Postville, Iowa is a changed town. Postville lost more than a quarter of its population in the raid. And for those left behind, namely the wives and children of the men taken away, the town has been turned into what some have described as an open-air prison.”
“Debt capitalism self-destructs”
Henry C K Liu: “The once-dynamic US economy has turned itself into a system in which it is difficult to find any institution, company or individual not over their head in speculative debt.”
“Math gender gap gone in grade school, persists in college”
ландшафтYun Xie: “It is possible that pressure from society eventually catches up to women and makes it difficult to stay in certain fields, as the problem certainly doesn’t seem to be innate intellectual capability.”