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	<title>The Core Blog &#187; social science</title>
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		<title>CC204: Living Wage Calculator</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/19/cc204-living-wage-calculator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, the class of CC204 has been looking at inequality in terms of race, gender, social class and financial standing. &#8220;Poverty in America&#8221; has provided a very useful tool to investigate inequality in terms wages across the United States, the Living Wage Calculator: http://bit.ly/Ykr2NZ Simply enter your home town and find out how much money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #50</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the relationship between religious faith and knowledge: Knowledge does not have the destructive power with which it is credited, but it is the only weapon that allows us to struggle against the dissolution from which it itself results.  It is not by gagging science that one may restore authority to vanished traditions; we shall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alumni of CC204 will take special interest in this piece at Huffington Post, where Leah Finnegan looks at a new study suggesting a measurable price on day-to-day happiness: Not having enough money causes emotional pain and unhappiness, the researchers found. But the happiness tipping point is about $75,000 &#8211; more money than that doesn&#8217;t make [...]]]></description>
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