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We Have More Parasites Looters And Moochers Every Day

The unemployment rate is now officially higher than it was when President Obama took office. That's a slow recovery, but still good. Here is the bad news: Actually it's a complicated issue isn't entirely a reflection of this lesser depression but part of a longer...

99 Spring Disrupts Verizon Shareholder Meeting Six Times

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better example of corporate greed than Verizon, a company making billions and tripling its CEO's pay while demanding givebacks from its workers. Today the 99% Spring movement let Verizon know that 99% of us are trying to bring big...

Stunning Income Inequality Data Of The Day

Sure, this is healthy: Between 1979 and 2005 (the latest data available with these breakdowns), the share of total income held by the top 1.0 percent more than doubled, from 9.7 percent to 21.0 percent, with most of the increase occurring since 1993. The top 0.1...

Snapshots of Austerity: Detachment

What's end of the line for austerity? We've gone through despair, desperation, and indifference. The latter feeds the first two, creating what Robert Reich calls "a tinderbox society," as "those collecting capital gains" demand austerity, resulting in "rising...

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