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Economy

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Memo to Washington: The Occupy Movement Lives
The Occupy Movement was the effect, not the cause, and it wonu2019t disappear because of the wishful thinking of a few.

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A Trumped-Up War on Welfare
One way the top 1 percent is trying to ease concerns about inequality is pretending that our safety net is too generous to the bottom 1 percent.

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Slick, the Chumps and the Bars: How the Free Market Is Sucking the Middle Class Dry
Let's analyze our current economic situation vis-u00e0-vis a simple example that cuts through all the arguments and charts and statistics and gets to the heart of the matter.

Government Hands More Than $1 Trillion to Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion
This is big money using money to influence the government to give them even more money.

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Using Eminent Domain to Rescue Main Street
In almost every part of the country, entire neighborhoods are drowning in debt, victims of Wall Streetu2019s reckless and predatory lending practices.

Shocking New Research Reveals Obama’s Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons
Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists

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Is the Baby-Making Business Selling False Hopes?
Long over-due attention to the rarely reported enduring traumas, societal impacts, health risks and myths associated with infertility.

The Egyptian Revolution’s Next Barrier
The revolutionary process in Egypt has been especially contradictory, requiring that a proper analysis untangle all of the political knots.

Salvatore Babones | Unprecedented Inequality: The Top 1% Captured 95% of the Income Gains Since 2009
Salvatore Babones: The economy is growing, but most workers are left behind.

“Final” TPP Round Not Final: Are Even More Secretive Talks Ahead?
Will TPP negotiations become even more secretive after imminent 19th round of TPP talks in Brunei, which is being called the last formal negotiating round?