America Crosses The Tipping Point: The Middle Class Is Now A Minority
Americans have long lived in a nation made up primarily of middle-class families, neither rich nor poor, but comfortable enough, notes NPR’s Marilyn Geewax, but this year – for the first time in US...
View ArticlePaul Buchheit – The Real Terrorists: The .01%
They consist of 16,000 individuals, about the size of a crowd at a professional basketball game. The inequality horror they’ve fomented is reaching far beyond the half of America that is in or near...
View ArticleRalph Nader – Big Crony CEO Pay Grab–Effects Beyond Greed!
As the New Year gets underway, the highest-paid CEOs of many large corporations have already paid themselves more than the average worker will earn in the entire year! By the end of the first week of...
View ArticleAmanda LeClaire – U-M Researchers: Low Income And Minority Communities Are...
University of Michigan researchers say low income and minority communities are targeted as sites for hazardous waste facilities. Using U.S. Census data, researchers found a pattern of hazardous waste...
View ArticleSarah Leonard, Bhaskar Sunkara – Why Our Generation’s Best Chance Is Socialism
Every election season is a time of bemoaning why millennials won’t vote for politicians boldly committed to picking at the edges of their problems. Consider a snapshot of the situation young people...
View ArticleRichard Eskow – What’s Killing the American Middle Class?
A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class.” But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but...
View ArticleSam Becker – How Much Money Does the Average American Have in Their Bank...
Despite living in what is likely the wealthiest nation to ever have existed, Americans sure are having a hard time getting by. As most people are well aware of at this point, wage stagnation and...
View ArticleNadia Prupis – Census Data ‘Starkly Illustrates’ the Time for Single Payer Is...
The latest U.S. Census Bureau data clearly illustrates that the need for a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health program has never been more urgent, the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health...
View ArticleThe Hot New Millennial Housing Trend Is a Repeat of the Middle Ages
For most of human history, people were hunter-gatherers. They lived in large camps, depending on one another for food, childcare, and everything else—all without walls, doors, or picket fences. In...
View ArticleRachel Nuwer – Why Grandpa Is Homeless
Herbert Manown is a self-described “jack-of-all-trades but master of none.” A Harley Davidson-riding Vietnam War Navy veteran, he has worked in construction, at the post office, and with the United...
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