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Jobs Are For We, The People. Budget Cuts Are For The Billionaires
News Image: We have millions unemployed with millions more underemployed or just gave up looking, our infrastructure is literally crumbling, our trade deficit is horrendous, our "safety net" has eroded...
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Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas from America’s Progressive Past
By Sam Pizzigati Editor, Too Much online magazineAmericans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still...
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40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage
News Image: The average American’s living standard would be much, much higher today if wages had not decoupled from productivity gains – with the gains all going to the 1 percent instead of being...
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Wages at Financial Institutions Continue to Grow, Even as Wages Everywhere...
News Image: Wages used to go up as productivity went up, but in the 1970s they decoupled. Productivity kept going up but wages stagnated.Category: Economyorigin Blog: Seeing The Forestorigin Author:...
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Fast Tracked TPP: Corporations Move to Make International Rules to Avoid US...
News Image: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, as it stands, would keep Congress and individual states from regulating giant multinational corporations. Naturally, it's being negotiated by the giant...
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NC State Senator Calls ‘Moral Monday’ Protesters ‘Moral Morons’
News Image: Since April, North Carolina citizens have gathered at the state capital in Raleigh for “Moral Monday” rallies and acts of civil disobedience to protest the the cruel things Republican...
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Corporate Welfare State: Big Business Taxed at 12.6 Percent, Half of What...
News Image: A new study shows that the big U.S. companies paid only 12.6 percent in taxes on their reported worldwide profits in 2010. Corporate taxes have gone from 5-6 percent of GDP down to only a...
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New Reports Show Economists Paid by Very Industry They're Supposed to...
News Image: Have you ever wondered why an economist would say that giving tax cuts to the rich makes the economy better? Or why they say that getting rid of unions is good for the economy? It turns out...
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GOP Economic Sabotage Continues With Filibuster of Jobless Benefits
News Image: Republicans are engaged in yet more hostage-taking obstruction. The newest operation: a filibuster of the effort to extend unemployment insurance, using it as a hostage to try to get even...
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New Definitions for a New World: 'Koch Brothers Capitalism'
News Image: By labeling a type of capitalism, the action implies that there are other kinds of capitalism. And that means that capitalism doesn't have to be the way people like the Koch Brothers are...
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Supreme Court's McCutcheon Decision: A Nail in Democracy's Coffin
News Image: Can democracy withstand the assault? Corporate cronyism has run amok, and the term 'plutocracy' has been thrown around reputable news sites, not just the fringe. The Supreme Court's...
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Average CEO Earns 774 Times the Minimum Wage, 331 Times That of the Average...
News Image: The AFL-CIO has released this year’s 2014 Executive PayWatch at a “comprehensive searchable online database tracking the excessive pay of CEOs of the nation’s largest companies.”...
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Your Wallet is Not Lying to You: US Middle Class is Getting Poorer
News Image: Study after study is proving a couple things – the middle class is shrinking, and the uber-wealthy are taking very nearly all the economic gains. Welcome to the United States Version 2.0:...
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Brownback's Foot-In-Mouth Troubles Give KS Dems (A Tiny) Chance in Gov Election
News Image: Kansas Governor Sam Brownback pushed through much of his far-right agenda during his now three years in office. Turns out, most Kansans are not fans of the consequences of business-first,...
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Rules Change for Dark Money Groups Won't Kick In Til After Election, IRS Says
News Image: There was some small hope that the IRS would effect some common sense rules changes prior to this year's elections, but those hopes have been dashed. Dark money groups will continue their...
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How Did This Happen? While Overall Wages Stagnate, CEO Pay at All-Time High
News Image: CEOs' pay is soaring – now at an average of $10.5 million a year – while the rest of us schmoes are left with stagnating wages. But it doesn't have to be this way.Category: Economyorigin...
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Bought and Paid For: CA State Senators in Pocket of Big Oil Won't Back...
News Image: Big Oil's money worked. Spending $1.5M on state senators got them the votes to sink a moratorium on fracking in California.Category: Environmentorigin Blog: DeSmogBlogorigin Author: Mike...
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Tax Holiday? More Like Billion-Dollar Giveaway. Congress Debates Size of...
News Image: Congress is debating another 'tax holiday' for corporations that have shipped their jobs – and their profits – overseas. As punishment for their sins, Congress in its ineffable wisdom has...
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Public (Employment) Enemy #1: The Trade Deficit
News Image: There is a direct correlation between the lack of well-paying jobs, the budget deficit and the US' trade deficit. Simply put, if we were to stop sending as much money and many jobs...
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House GOP Pushing for Exemption, Corporate Gift for Data Transparency Haters
News Image: The House GOP is pushing for an exemption that would allow big corporations to forgo publishing financial information – a huge setback for advocates of open data and transparency.Category:...
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