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VIDEO: "This is the top 1% we've been hearing so much about. The reality in...
9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact As @jneproductions so aptly put it (and who linked me to the video), this is an excellent, logical, and unemotional breakdown of...
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Wall Street Soars with Wealth as Wages Stagnate, Jobs Remain in a Slump
As of 12:30 PT Update: The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 100 points today, allowing the world's most-watched stock index to close at a record high. It marks the highest daily close since...
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VIDEO: Rev. Al Sharpton files lawsuit against Michigan Emergency Management...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC: On Thursday, Michigan’s Public Act 36 comes into effect and Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr becomes...
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VIDEO- What they don't want you to know about the oil disaster: "People were...
About a week ago, I posted BP still hasn’t paid billions of dollars in fines, other payments to Gulf Coast, environmental groups. As you well know, BP destroyed lives, businesses, the environment,...
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Senate Republicans Want to Destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: Count the ways that the GOP in Congress is still trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). There are so many...
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Wall St. "Too Big to Fail" Banks and Corporations Are the Real Takers: Count...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: The takers are on the loose, mugging most of the American population and destroying a vital economy and representative democracy in...
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10 Car Options the Law Won't Let You Have
I love new gadgets and do-hickeys. I want them all and can't wait to get my mitts on 'em. Sometimes they're safety features, sometimes they're gimmicks and other times they're just plain cool. Not...
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"I love the president, but I love my mama more."
At Netroots Nation, I learned a lot by attending a number of panels and seminars, and I came away with some invaluable insights and information that I'd love to share with you. Specifically, I'd like...
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VIDEO: "Going Public" exposes wealthy conservatives' aim to gut public...
Someone I admire greatly, Lisa Graves, is in the movies! Specifically, a documentary about the despicable movement to privatize public schools. Here's the first sentence of her bio at ALEC Exposed:...
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VIDEO: Corporate CEOs admit pushing credit agencies to lower Illinois's bond...
Relevant segment at around the 47-minute mark. Via IllinoisChannelTV, Mar 8, 2013: From the Union League Club of Chicago: Former Attorney-General Ty Fahner, who now heads the Civic Committee of the...
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WI Gov. Scott Walker suggests stripping police and firefighter union rights
Why, it was only yesterday that I posted about how Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and county staff collaborated after a teenage boy was killed by a 13-ton concrete panel that fell on him....
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VIDEO: "Post-Citizens United, conservatives look at [union decline] & smell...
I recently posted about WI Gov. Scott Walker suggesting stripping police and firefighter union rights. Without unions, workers suffer. (We all suffer.) They suffer because they have no rights to speak...
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Mayday! Mayday! for America's middle class
Via So struggling Americans, how's that GOP-supported trickle-down economics workin' for ya? Same here. It's not. It never has, but that doesn't stop Paul Ryan or Eric Cantor from sticking up for...
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Group finds that ALEC falsified signatures on "stand your ground" letter to...
We've posted about ALEC a lot here at TPC. For example: Education dean at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: ALEC is still at it. Goal: Privatize, “eliminate school districts, boards” ALEC, meat/poultry...
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VIDEO: A genius made this video, a British guy who calls himself a "Labor geek"
Link to tweet; link to Labor Day Wiki. And please read my post "What a difference a union can make!" In today's Los Angeles Times, there is an op-ed by Harold Meyerson (editor at large of the American...
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VIDEO: Why unions matter, in a measly 1 minute 19 seconds
Via Colin Gordon from June 2012: Author's analysis of Historical Statistics of the United States, unionstats.com, Piketty and Saez (2003), and The World Top Incomes Database...
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Decline of organized labor has helped worsen racial wage gap
Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld are professors of sociology at the University of Maryland and the University of Washington, respectively. Both are members of the Scholars Strategy Network, and...
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The success of the #Occupy movement: "Invisible suffering was made visible" #OWS
Rebecca Solnit wrote an inspiring op-ed in today's L.A. Times, one I've been waiting for someone to write. If you need a morale boost, please read it in full. Solnit is an author who spent time at...
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Financing the Destruction of Planet Earth Are the Same Banks That Cratered...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: [T]he same banks that nearly turned America into an economic dust bowl in 2008 are the ones financing the earth-destroying companies...
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Guess who makes more income in states with lots of #union members?
From the Department of No Sh** Sherlock: Think Progress: The middle class brings home a substantially larger share of aggregate earnings in states that have high rates of union membership than in...
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