Monica Harris
Thought Leader Author Attorney
I awakened to the illusions,
ditched corporate America,
and found happiness in the Montana woods
REALITY BITES: INSIGHTS ON BRIDGING THE AMERICAN DIVIDE
REFERENCES & RESOURCES
References & Resources
CHAPTER III. Living with the Enemy
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CHAPTER II. Our Distorted Reality
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CHAPTER IV: What the Hell is Going On?
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CHAPTER V: We Elect Excellent Sheep to Run Our Country — and the World
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CHAPTER VI. Elites Control the Media That Distract Us From the Bigger Picture
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CHAPTER VII. Excellent Sheep in Media Shape Our Reality
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CHAPTER VIII. U.S. Elections Are Descents Into Insanity
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Kreps, Daniel. "Jimmy Carter: U.S. Is an ‘Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery.'"Rolling Stone, July 31, 2015,
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CHAPTER IX. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Final Message To America
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Lubrano, Alfred. "Rate of Births to White Single Moms Accelerates." Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2018, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/unwed-white-mothers-babies-marriage-philadelphia-poverty-women-20181112.html. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Sawhill, Isabel V. "Family Structure: The Growing Importance of Class." Brookings, January 16, 2013, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/family-structure-the-growing-importance-of-class/. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Bernstein, Jared. "The Black-White Unemployment Gap is at an All-Time Low. Here’s How to Keep it There." The Washington Post, July 13, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/13/the-black-white-unemployment-gap-is-at-an-all-time-low-heres-how-to-keep-it-there/?noredirect=on. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
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Fremstad, Shawn. "The Official U.S. Poverty Rate is Based on a Hopelessly Out-of-Date Metric."The Washington Post, September 16, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/16/official-us-poverty-rate-is-based-hopelessly-out-of-date-metric/. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Dellinger, Drew. "The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr." The Atlantic, April 4, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/mlk-last-march/555953/. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
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CHAPTER X. We Can’t Breathe
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Monaghan, Angela. “US Wealth Inequality – Top 0.1% Worth As Much As the Bottom 90%,” The Guardian, November 13, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-wealth-inequality-top-01-worth-as-much-as-the-bottom-90 (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Ingraham, Christopher. “Wealth Concentration Returning to ‘Levels Last Seen During the Roaring Twenties,’ According to New Research,” The Washington Post, February 8, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-concentration-returning-levels-last-seen-during-roaring-twenties-according-new-research/. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Anderson, Lynne. “Study: US Cities Have Worse Inequality than Mexico, with Rich and Poor Living Side by Side,” The Conversation, June 1, 2017, https://theconversation.com/study-us-cities-have-worse-inequality-than-mexico-with-rich-and-poor-living-side-by-side-76125. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
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Pesce, Nicole Lyn. “55% of Businesses Closed on Yelp Have Shut Down For Good During the Coronavirus Pandemic,” MarketWatch, July 22, 2020, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/41-of-businesses-listed-on-yelp-have-closed-for-good-during-the-pandemic-2020-06-25. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
Kulish, Nicholas. “‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: Cars Line Up for Miles at Food Banks,” The New York Times, April 8, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/business/economy/coronavirus-food-banks.html. (Accessed September 27, 2020).
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2018 Crime in the United States,
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-43
CHAPTER XI. Elites Use Race to Divide and Distract Us
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