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139 basic functions that had been performed by democratically
Emily Thornton, "Roads to Riches," BusinessWeek, May 6, 2007; Jonathan Hoenig, "Opportunities in Infrastructure: Should We Privatize Bridges and Roads?," Fox News, August 5, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253438,00.html.
140 highest inequality of incomes and the highest poverty rate
James Gustave Speth, "America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I," Orion, March/April 2012.
141 lowest "material well-being"
Ibid.
142 highest child poverty rate
Ibid.
143 highest infant mortality rate
Ibid.
144 biggest prison population and the highest homicide rate
Ibid.
145 largest percentage of its citizens unable to afford health care
Ibid.
146 "should be monitored in the same way that textbooks"
Powell, "The Powell Memo."
147 "opportunity for supporters of the American system"
Ibid.
148 "vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good"
James Madison, Federalist No. 10, "The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection," November 23, 1787, http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_10.html.
149 "unfriendly pa.s.sions and excite their most violent conflicts"
Ibid.
150 "the various and unequal distribution of property"
Ibid.
151 property, and income in the United States is now larger
Timothy Noah, "Introducing the Great Divergence," Slate, September 3, 2010.
152 who are relatively more tolerant and others who are relatively less tolerant
Jonathan Haidt, "Born This Way? Nature, Nurture, Narratives, and the Making of Our Political Personalities," Reason, May 2012.
153 value liberty and fairness but think about them differently
Ibid.
154 differences are reinforced by social feedback loops
Ibid.; Sasha Issenberg, "Born This Way: The New Weird Science of Hardwired Political Ident.i.ty," New York, April 16, 2012.
155 what language would most trigger feelings of outrage