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The Rich Just Keep Getting Richer...
It's no longer just an expression – the rich are getting richer, and the rest of us are being shut out of the game. A new report says that the top 10% took home more than half of all the income in 2012. More than 20% went to the top 1%.
Moving In With Family Becomes A Safety Net In The New Economy
Family has become a new national safety net for graduates facing declining job prospects and rising student loan debt, families facing unemployment, and older adults whose forced them to move in with their grown children.
Why D.C. Mayor's Veto Of Walmart Wage Bill Is A National Outrage
The veto is the latest in a nationwide battle to end the practices of companies such as Walmart that build their businesses on the backs of workers receiving poverty wages and on the backs of taxpayers who subsidize their businesses.
Progressive Breakfast
Shutdown Fears Reignite As House Dysfunction Reigns House GOP, facing mutiny, pulls bill to keep government open and maintain sequester. NYT: "Democrats are uniting in opposition to the bill, not only because of the resolution to starve the Affordable Care Act, but...
Recovery for the Rich, Recession for the Rest
Five years after the financial crisis, it’s become increasingly apparent that the government didn’t rescue “the economy.” It rescued the wealthy, while doing far too little for everyone else.
How Progressives Prepare For The Economic Debates Ahead
As Congress prepares to turn to a high-stakes budget battle, author David Cay Johnston and Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison advise progressives on what it will take to win.
Don't Believe the College Rankings Hype
Don’t be fooled by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. With the usual suspects taking the lead, like Harvard and Yale, you may be asking yourself why the rankings are so disingenuous.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Address Takes Diplomatic Path ... For Now Mixed reaction to speech in Congress. National Journal: "...many Democrats [said] they heard a message of strength from the president while Republicans were largely unconvinced that the administration has a firm handle...
“A World of Radical Inequality Doesn’t Work”
Economist Joseph Stiglitz addressed the AFL-CIO convention Tuesday on the subject of inequality — the way wealth and income is concentrating at the very top while the rest of us fall behind.
New Evidence Trans-Pacific Trade Proposal Will Hurt Workers
A report says "most workers are likely to lose" as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, and that what the economy will gain as a whole "amounts to a rounding error."
