HeyJaredLz Granderson
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LZ Granderson: The cruel politics that pit struggling Americans against each other (opens the original)
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The funny thing about American capitalism is that it requires abundance to truly thrive, and yet capitalists prefer the illusion of exclusivity and scarcity to control the market. It wasn’t too long ago when the Great Recession exposed the phrase “free market” as a synonym for “less accountability.” We also learned then that “job creators” just means “rich people,” and there was some truth to that back when labor was a necessary ingredient to building wealth. One way that the rich became richer
LZ Granderson: Who would want the US to be run like a business? (opens the original)
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When pushing for the United States to be run more like a business, please keep in mind that framework naturally conflates the populace with labor and public servants with bosses. As it is, roughly half the country sees a workplace future of “struggling” or “suffering,” according to Gallup’s “State of the Global Workplace” report. Yet this week, one of the “bosses” pushed again for “labor” to delay retirement. “If we could just get the average American to feel so healthy, so with it, so vibrant,
LZ Granderson: Michigan race tests whether voters care more about issues or identity (opens the original)
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Nestled between two large lakes, near the northwest tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula, you’ll find more than 1,000 acres of land dedicated to the performing arts. The list of children who have spent time there and gone on to have distinguished careers is extensive. Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Grammy winner Norah Jones. Emmy winner Felicity Huffman. The backdrop where they rehearsed, befriended and dreamed of fame is lush and picturesque. Getting accepted into the Interlochen summer camp m
LZ Granderson: My road trip revealed the good and the bad that hold America together (opens the original)
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Of all the sentences, passages and lyrics I heard, read or sang on my family’s 2,000-mile trek across much of America — from the Midwest to the Southwest — those three words stayed with me most. The waitress at the Church Street Cafe in Old Town Albuquerque told me to say them before I left, otherwise Sara Ruiz — the resident ghost, a member of the family that owned the building for three centuries — might follow us home. Now, if Sara was going to chip in for gas, that might not have been a bad
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