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The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty
Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage, or supporting jobs programs, conservative Republicans are taking a different tack.
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Skyrocketing CEO Pay Is Bad for our Economy
As the 5th anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Protection Act approaches, Roosevelt's Sue Holmberg explains why high CEO pay is bad for the economy.
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Wealth Inequality in America
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
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The Great U-Turn
Do you recall a time in America when the income of a single school teacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family? My father (who just celebrated his 100th birthday) earned enough for the rest of us to live comfortably. We weren’t rich but never felt poor, and our standard of living rose steadily through the 1950s and 1960s.
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Fleecing Uncle Sam
A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes.
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10 Ways the American Safety Net Is Being Shredded
FDR’s New Deal is in trouble in 2015.
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Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.
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Freedom, Power, and the Conservative Mind
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t have to offer their employees contraceptive coverage that conflicts with the corporate owners’ religious beliefs.
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The view from the top
Photos of how the richest 1 percent lives.
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This Man Wants to Become President, Pass One Law, and Resign. You Should Support Him.
Why it makes sense to support a candidate who vows to straighten out democracy and then quit.
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The Voices Disrupting White Supremacy Through Sound
From NON Records to a compilation on a new label fronted by Mykki Blanco, rising networks of African and Afrodiasporic artists are choosing to disseminate music in solidarity.
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Chief executives earn '183 times more than workers'
The average pay of FTSE 100 chief executives is 183 times more than the average full-time worker, research suggests.
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Ed-Tech's Inequalities
The History of the Future of Education Technology
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The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system
How a promising but oversimplified idea caught fire, then got coopted by conservative ideology
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The “Paid-What-You’re-Worth” Myth
It’s often assumed that people are paid what they’re worth. According to this logic, minimum wage workers aren’t worth more than the $7.25 an hour they now receive. If they were worth more, they’d earn more. Any attempt to force employers to pay them more will only kill jobs.
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How Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts, Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
The riveting writer, Michael Hudson, has read our collective minds and the simmering anger in our hearts. Millions of American have long suspected that their inability to get financially ahead is an intentional construct of Wall Street’s central planners.
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7 Largest Landowners In The Nation
Some of the nations largest landowners have spent time in the corporate arena, but they're more at home on a ranch.
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Harvard Business School's Role in Widening Inequality
No institution is more responsible for educating the CEOs of American corporations than Harvard Business School – inculcating in them a set of ideas and principles that have resulted in a pay gap between CEOs and ordinary workers that’s gone from 20-to-1 fifty years ago to almost 300-to-1 today.
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How To Fight Poverty? It's Simple: Give Cash To Poor People
Experts don't know what a poor person needs. But guess who does? Poor people.
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A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us
While the availability of pension plans for most Americans has dwindled in the last 30 years, more than half of Fortune 500 CEOs receive company-sponsored pension plans. Their firms are allowed to deduct the cost of these plans from their taxes, even if they have cut worker pensions or never offered them at all.
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