Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Begin: WordPress Article Content It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices.That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from…
A new analysis suggests that President Barack Obama ’s recent tax proposals would do little to boost incomes for middle-class households, and actually could wind up raising taxes on many, at least by some measures. The analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, tends to undercut recent…
GIF by Jaeger Sloan Studio As we all know, Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly warned New Yorkers about the impending blizzard (that ultimately wasn’t) with statements like, “We are facing most likely one of the largest snowstorms in the history of this city. Prepare for the worst and we will all be able to get…
googleon: snippetFor the past four years, photographer Brandon Stanton has documented people he encountered along the streets of New York City for his popular blog, “Humans of New York,” but it was a photo last week of a teenager in Brooklyn that has taken the world by storm. Walking through Brownsville, Brooklyn, an area with…
WOODINVILLE, Wash.—Five years ago, Quadrant Homes churned out starter houses in the Seattle area with an average sales price of $269,000 and the marketing slogan, “More House, Less Money.” But facing a debt-burdened middle class and rising land prices, Quadrant has since exchanged entry-level buyers for customers free of credit worries and ready to splurge….
article start American families have made big strides repairing their balance sheets from the economic crash, but their finances remain disturbingly vulnerable to emergencies—a major obstacle to economic mobility, a new report says. About 70% of U.S. households are struggling with at least one of three problems with their balance sheets—low incomes, insufficient savings or…
by Katie Hawkins-Gaar Published Jan. 29, 2015 10:13 am Updated Jan. 29, 2015 11:05 am New York Times front page on Wednesday, January 28. (Photo by Katie Hawkins-Gaar) It was an exciting moment for user-generated content. The New York Times featured nine Instagram photos on the front page of its Wednesday edition. As far as…
You should totally blog about this article on Tumblr. You know, just a headline, excerpt, link back, and a few lines of your own thoughts. If you do, you’ll likely find a new interface for posting content to the microblogging behemoth. Today, Tumblr is pushing out a pretty substantial refresh to its writing and editing…
So, to state the obvious: Jon Chait is a jerk who somehow manages to be both condescending and wounded in his piece on political correctness. He gets the basic nature of language policing wrong, and his solutions are wrong, and he’s a centrist Democrat scold who is just as eager to shut people out of…
Jonathan Chait has written an article for New York Magazine about his concerns that political correctness threatens free debate by trying to silence certain points of view. Political correctness, in Chait’s view, is a “system of left-wing ideological repression” that threatens the “bedrock liberal ideal” of a “free political marketplace where we can reason together…