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The election of the next US president is upon us, and with established politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush poised to be key players, the campaigns seem destined to be as contentious, as ugly, and as seemingly removed from the reality of American lives as ever. In Sixteen for 16, Salvatore Babones takes the politics out of policy, bringing the debate back to the issues that matter in a new, unified agenda for the 2016 elections. Decades of destructive social and economic policies have devastated poor, working, and middle-class American communities. It is now clear that harsh austerity does not bring prosperity, that the wealthy have no intention of seeing their wealth trickle down, and that each generation is no longer better off than the ones that came before.
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Salvatore Babones (@sbabones) is an associate professor of sociology and social policy at the University of Sydney. His research takes a long-term approach to interpreting the macro-level structure of the world-economy, with a particular focus on China's global economic integration. He holds both a master's degree in statistics and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University.
