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American Middle Class: Bummed out

Prospects for college graduates are dim as this week’s New Yorker Magazine illustrates. Prospects for Middle Class American Moms and Dads...
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Mitt Romney is right: Poor on safety nets are better off than most Americans

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  • February 3, 2012
On January 31st, the media began to attack Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on one of his comments said after winning the Florida...
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Obama Challenges Republicans to step up for Americans

President Obama was blunt in his press conference Thursday morning, as he asked the Senate to pass his jobs bill, and it was directed at...
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Poverty on the rise three years after Fed pumps over $6 trillion into economy

As the US heads towards a showdown with raising the debt celing, and the Federal Reserve came out on July 13th saying that further stimulus is...
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Conservatives are conveying wrong message on the middle class and taxes

Conservatives have gotten rather animated about the idea that approximately 50 percent of the population does not pay taxes. They point at this as...
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What is the middle class?

There is a lot of talk of the middle class dying. But, what is the middle class? Is there actually a definition? Is it a financial distinction or a...
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A history lesson on union power, the law, and income growth rates in America

The protests in Wisconsin are just the latest battle in a century-long political war over the amount of power unions should have in America....
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The battle to save the middle class as 6 million added to food assistance

In no time in history has the distinction between the ultra rich, and the growing poor become more prevalent. Since the credit crisis of 2008, and...
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Sore lip, defiant mouth

Even as he nurses a sore lower lip, Barack Obama continues to inflict pain on American sensibilities with his defiant mouth.Though he took one...
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The sad truth of America where minimum wage is worth more than $60,000 a year

The TEA in Tea party stands for Taxed Enough Already, and now we have the numbers to prove it. Breaking down disposable income for the head of...
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