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- Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011
ZNet Article It’s no accident wages are down while corporate profits are up -
- Monday, Nov 01, 2010
ZNet Article Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a "plutonomy." -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Friday, Jul 24, 2009
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Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you're a minimum wage worker. -
- Sunday, Feb 15, 2009
Commentary In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows. -
- Monday, Aug 04, 2008
Commentary Minimum wage workers have been stuck in a losing game of "Mother May I" with the federal government. Workers step forward when the government says yes to raising the minimum wage. Workers step backward when the cost of living increases, but the mi... -
- Friday, May 02, 2008
Commentary When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished." -
- Friday, Nov 09, 2007
Commentary When it comes to producing billionaires, America is doing great. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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- Sunday, Aug 12, 2007
Commentary Minimum wage workers made $5.15 an hour when Harry Potter became a sensation a decade ago, and nothing more until July 24, three days after the final Harry Potter book release. -
- Friday, Jun 01, 2007
ZMag Article Imagine a country where one out of five children is born into poverty and
wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s, the top 1 percent
of households has doubled their share of the nation’s wealth. The top 1
percent has close... -
- Monday, Feb 12, 2007
ZNet Article The minimum wage is headed for a raise -- back to the 1950s. That's right, even after rising from $5.15 now to $7.25 in 2009, the federal minimum wage will still be lower than it was in 1956, when it was $7.41 in today's dollars. The minimum wage... -
- Friday, Dec 29, 2006
Commentary Every year, PNC Wealth Management calculates the "Christmas Price Index" based on gifts in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." PNC reports, "Maids-a-Milking, who are paid the minimum wage, were the only service providers not to see an increa... -
- Wednesday, Oct 04, 2006
Commentary Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only. -
- Saturday, Jul 15, 2006
Commentary Members of Congress like to talk about values. They sure don't mean the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." -
- Friday, Apr 28, 2006
Commentary Did you get a $1 million dollar cut in your taxes? -
- Wednesday, Feb 01, 2006
Commentary Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the brink of the Great Depression and died fighting for the right of workers to earn a decent living. -
- Thursday, Dec 22, 2005
Commentary Pie season is here. Pumpkin, apple, cherry, whatever you like. We can use edible pie charts -- and some chocolate -- to see how our national economic pie is being carved up more unfairly. -
- Monday, Oct 24, 2005
Commentary Guess which country the CIA World Factbook describes when it says, "Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20 percent of households." -
- Saturday, Aug 13, 2005
Commentary When Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law in the summer of 1965, former President Harry Truman received the first Medicare card. He would be shocked that 40 years later, more than 45 million Americans have no health coverage, half of all per... -
- Saturday, Jan 01, 2005
ZMag Article What a country, our United States.
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- Friday, Oct 29, 2004
ZNet Article Imagine there was no electoral college and Al Gore became president after winning the popular vote in 2000. Now, imagine President Gore running for re-election with George W. Bush's record.
How would you vote?
What if al-Qaeda easily hijacked pl... -
- Friday, Sep 12, 1986
Book The authors combine and transcend various theories of history (marxism, anarchism, feminism, and nationalism) to develop an alternative conceptual framework, complementary holism. Applying this framework to questions of economics, politics, gender... - All Most Recent Content
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Book The authors combine and transcend various theories of history (marxism, anarchism, feminism, and nationalism) to develop an alternative conceptual framework, complementary holism. Applying this framework to questions of economics, politics, gender... - All Recent Books
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