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Wealth Inequality And Middle-Class Decline Is Worse That We Think
Economist Emmanuel Saez's latest paper says that the share of wealth going to the bottom 90 percent has fallen to where it was in the 1940s, while the top tenth of 1 percent have levels of wealth last seen in the 1920s.
Ebola Hysteria Fever: A Real Epidemic
Thus far, the Ebola virus has infected three people in the United States that we know of, however Ebola hysteria seems to have infected somewhere close to 300 million.
Why Republicans May Still Lose The Senate
It's true that Republicans have inched ahead in many of the contested states. It's also true that Republicans have lost ground in the three states that nearly everyone assumed Republicans had in the bag.
Progressive Breakfast
Populism Rising In Midterms? Prairie populism catching fire in South Dakota. Bloomberg: "[Democratic Senate candidate Rick] Weiland is trying something else. His campaign is a home-grown insurgency, old-fashioned prairie populism in the spirit of George McGovern ......
Promised Republican Economic Austerity Plan Will Ruin The Economy
If Republicans take the Senate, they promise severe cuts – or just force the government to shut down. But Europe's tragedy shows that cuts kill economies. What will happen if we enter another recession?
Beyond Ferguson: Ending Racial Profiling In America
America must stop “following tragedy with embarrassment,” and pass the End Racial Profiling Act, before the next city that’s “one dead black teenager away from burning to the ground” catches fire.
Our Empathetic Rich: The Rarest of Birds
A landmark new study has laid bare the dirty little secret of modern American philanthropy: America's wealthy don't particularly care all that much about the rest of us.
Progressive Breakfast
Clamor Rising To End Austerity Anti-austerity backlash in Europe. NYT: "...many of the largest European countries are now rebelling against the German gospel of belt-tightening and demanding more radical steps to reverse their slumping fortunes ... France, which has...
Democrats Discovering Social Security Is Still A 'Third Rail'
Social Security has been called the “third rail” of American politics and it turns out that talking about cutting Social Security is still like touching a “third rail.” Who could have known?
Midterm Ad Watch: The Republican Outsourcers
In 2012, Republicans nominated for president a private equity firm CEO with a record of outsourcing jobs. It did not go well. In several states for the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans have done it again.
