Third World America - Arianna Huffington [113]
118 over 4 percent of U.S. workers have been unemployed: Kevin Drum, “Who Are the Long-Term Unemployed?” 13 May 2010, www.motherjones.com.
119 And more and more people are entering the ranks of “the 99ers”: Arthur Delaney, “Tier 5: The Despair of the 99ers,” 28 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
120 Of course, a third of America’s unemployed: Jay Bookman, “Do Jobless Checks Subsidize Laziness? Research Shows …,” 21 Apr. 2010, www.ajc.com.
121 Making matters worse, there is a growing: Laura Bassett, “Disturbing Job Ads: ‘The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered,’ ” 4 Jun. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
122 A study by researchers at Yale: “Rising Unemployment Causes Higher Death Rates, New Study by Yale Researcher Shows,” 23 May 2002, www.yale.edu.
123 Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book—The Fourth Instinct: Arianna Huffington, The Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 147–148.
124 As Pablo Neruda said: “To feel the intimacy of brothers …”: “Childhood and Poetry,” Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, Robert Bly, ed. (Boston: Beacon, 1993), 12.
125 It was the happiness: Prov. 14:21 (King James edition).
126 He’s got the right words: “When you serve”: Barack Obama, commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, 17 Mar. 2009, www.whitehouse.gov.
127 In the immediate aftermath of 9/11: “Bush Says US Will Wage ‘Long and Unrelenting War,’ ” Associated Press, 15 Sept. 2001.
128 A month later he echoed that theme: George W. Bush, press conference, 11 Oct. 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov.
129 Of course, the sum total of his idea of sacrifice: Andrew J. Bacevich, “He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill Is Due,” 5 Oct. 2008, www.washingtonpost.com.
130 In 2009, for example, Teach for America received 35,000 applications: Associated Press, “Teach for America Applications Soar,” 28 May 2009.
131 In 2008, 75,000 AmeriCorps members: Alan Silverleib, “Hope in Cedar Rapids as Washington Pushes Volunteerism,” 22 Oct. 2010, www.cnn.com.
132 The Serve America Act, introduced by Ted Kennedy: “S. 277, the Serve America Act,” Democratic Policy Institute Legislative Bulletin, 23 Mar. 2009, www.dpc.senate.gov.
133 Approximately 280,000 special needs children: USA Freedom Corps, “Answering the Call to Service,” Sept. 2008, 19.
134 Eighty-one percent of the children: “Independent Research Shows National Service Program Enlisting Tutors over Age 55 Produces Big Gains in Student Learning,” 7 Apr. 2009, www.experiencecorps.org.
135 And students working with an Experience Corps tutor: Nancy Morrow-Howell et al., “Evaluation of Experience Corps,” Washington University in St. Louis, Jan. 2009, www.csd.wustl.edu.
136 When people used to offer to join: Susan Conroy, Mother Teresa’s Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003), 199.
137 Geoffrey Canada provides a template: Dan Collins, “Harlem’s Miracle Man,” 22 Jan. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
138 As reported by Metro: “A Model for Obama,” Metro, 17 Mar. 2009, www.metro.us.
139 He titled it “Waiting for Whom?”: Geoffrey Canada, “Waiting For Whom?” Harlem Children’s Zone, www.hcz.org.
140 Susie Buffett offers another shining example: Quotes and materials provided by Susie Buffett to the author in conversation and by email, May 2010.
141 In The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin: Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (New York: Penguin, 2009), 12.
142 New scientific data tells us: Ibid., 47.
143 “An individual,” said Martin Luther King: Martin Luther King Jr., The Measure of a Man (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001), 43.
144 the Huffington Post published a story about Monique Zimmerman-Stein: Julian Hattem, “Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See,” 28 Sep. 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com.
145 The Stein family’s story struck: Victoria Fine, “Help the Steins: Mother Who Went Blind to Save Her