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Its Now Indisputable We Have A Jobs Crisis

Now can we agree that there is a jobs crisis? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an anemic number of new jobs created in May, 54,000. In other words, we're moving backward in terms of putting Americans back to work, as indicated by the uptick in the unemployment...

School Cuts And Reforms Feed The Prison Pipeline

As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children....

The Global Millionaire Roll Showing No Slowing

From a top financial analyst group, new evidence that the human race, as a whole, has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010 was a damn good year,” Monish Kumar, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting...

Close the Social Security Cap Tax Loophole

Most people don’t know that there is a huge loophole in the Social Security tax. Believe it or not, after $107K income you don’t pay any Social Security tax. This loophole is called the “cap.” The "cap" loophole is bigger than the loopholes that let big corporations...

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