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Six months after famine was declared, 4 million Somalis were in need of aid and the UN said the number now stood at 2.34m. \"The gains are fragile and will be reversed without continued support,\" said Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia. \"There are 1.7 million people in southern Somalia still in crisis. Millions of people still need food, clean water, shelter and other assistance to survive and the situation is expected ...","authors":null,"source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"3","title":"Romney Isn\u2019t Concerned","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opinion/krugman-romney-isnt-concerned.html","date":"2012/02/02","id":8546155,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"If you\u2019re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn\u2019t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, \u201cI\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.\u201d Faced with criticis","authors":"Paul Krugman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"1","title":"Unions Shocked By American Airlines Proposed Cuts","url":"http://www.npr.org/2012/02/02/146265431/unions-shocked-by-american-airlines-proposed-cuts?ft=1&f=3","date":"2012/02/02","id":8545137,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"American Airlines is looking to cut 13,00 jobs as part of a restructuring. The company \u2014 which is in bankruptcy \u2014 also wants to reduce salaries by 20 percent and end its pension plan.","authors":"Wade Goodwyn","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"All Things Considered","framebuster":true,"id":"all_things_considered","ownership":"ind","type":"radio","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.4","num_reviews":"4","title":"6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America","url":"http://www.alternet.org/story/153901/6_shocking_ways_capitalism_is_failing_working_america","date":"2012/02/01","id":8542455,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Capitalism is coming apart at the seams and the middle-class is paying the price.","authors":"Les Leopold","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"1","title":"Raj Patel: In Attacks on Obama, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich is \u201cRacially Coding Poverty\u201d","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/23/raj_patel_in_attacks_on_obama","date":"2012/01/23","id":8529087,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"what is really needed is a conversation about poverty and why the need for food stamps is so high. \"It\u2019s true that disproportionately people of color are affected by food insecurity. But what Gingrich is doing, of course, is racially coding poverty by calling President Obama 'the food stamp president,'\" Patel said. \"He\u2019s invoking these ideas of racialized poverty. Of course, if you look at the people who are on the food stamp program, you see that the majority of them are white and poor.\" Patel is author of the popular book, \"Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.\"","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"1","title":"Bill Maher Compares Mitt Romney To Rappers: 'Straight Outta Salt Lake' (VIDEO)","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/bill-maher-compares-mitt-romney-rappers-video_n_1220920.html","date":"2012/01/21","id":8525468,"story_type":"Comedy News","quote":"\"No matter how clear Jay-Z makes it that the hot tub is only for the coolest and most beautiful people, somehow when the song ends we think, 'That is us,'\" Maher said. \"That's how Romney rolls -- straight outta Salt Lake. Get equity or die tryin'.\" Mitt","authors":"Bill Maher","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"6","title":"One Percent, Many Variations","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/business/the-1-percent-paint-a-more-nuanced-portrait-of-the-rich.html","date":"2012/01/15","id":8514292,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Adam Katz is happy to talk to reporters when he is promoting his business, a charter flight company based on Long Island called Talon Air. But when the subject was his position as one of America\u2019s top earners, he balked. Seated at a desk fashioned from a jet fuel cell, wearing a button-down shirt with the company logo, he considered the public relations benefits and found them lacking: \u201cIt\u2019s not very popular to be in the 1 percent these days, is it?\u201d","authors":"Shaila Dewan, Robert Gebeloff","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"1","title":"Nicholas D. Kristof Blog: Melinda Gates Shares Insights From Her Recent Trip to Bangladesh.","url":"http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/melinda-gates-answers-questions-part-ii/","date":"2012/01/12","id":8509404,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Melinda Gates, just back from a trip to Bangladesh, along with Nicholas Kristof, answer readers' questions about the developing world.","authors":"By THE EDITORS","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.4","num_reviews":"1","title":"300 Chinese Foxconn Workers 'Threaten Mass Suicide' At XBox Plant, Reports Claim","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/10/300-chinese-foxconn-workers-threaten-mass-suicide_n_1196345.html?just_reloaded=1","date":"2012/01/11","id":8508707,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Around 300 Chinese workers who manufacture XBox consoles took to a factory roof and threatened bosses with mass suicide over a dispute about pay, unconfirmed reports have claimed.\n\nThe workers were employed at the Foxconn Technology Park in Wuhan in Hubei province. Foxconn is an independent, global manufacturing partner to companies including Apple, Microsoft and Sony.","authors":"Michael Rundle","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"huffingtonpost.co.uk","framebuster":false,"id":"huffingtonpost_co_uk","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"5.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"The economic illiteracy of economists | Mark Weisbrot","url":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/10/economic-illiteracy-of-economists","date":"2012/01/10","id":8507504,"story_type":null,"quote":"The American Economic Association's annual meeting is red-letter day for 'the dismal science'. And dismal it proved The American Economic Association's annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place \u2013 a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting panel on \"the economics of regime change\" , when I stumbled over to see what the big budget experts had to say about \"the political economy of the US debt and deficits\". The session was introduced by UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach, who put up a graph of the United States' rising debt-to-GDP ratio, and warned of dire consequences if Congress didn't do something about it. Yawn. But the panelists got off to a good start, with Alan Blinder of Princeton, former vice-chairman of the US Federal Reserve, describing the public discussion of the US national debt as generally ranging from \"ludicrous to ...","authors":"Mark Weisbrot","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]