Bob Herbert Devotes His Last New York Times Column to the "Scandalous" Maldistribution of Wealth
Bob Herbert’s career as a columnist for the New York Times spanned nearly 18 years, during which he devoted much of his column space to issues of poverty and wealth inequality in the United States. His final op-ed for the Times appeared on Saturday.
Herbert used his last lines to call the war in Libya a scandalous misplacement of American priorities, considering the state of the economy:
Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline… As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the richest 10 percent of Americans received an unconscionable 100 percent of the average income growth in the years 2000 to 2007, the most recent extended period of economic expansion.
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