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Wealth Gap
Why Don’t the Unemployed Get Off Their Couches? And Eight Other Critical Questions for Americans
As the United States slips from its status as the globe's number one economic power, small numbers of Americans continue to amass staggering amounts of wealth, while simultaneously inequality …
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Derailing the Dynasty Train
In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.
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USA: The World’s Newest Third World Nation
While the US is the wealthiest nation in the world, and has the most billionaires in the world, not a single US city ranks among the world's most livable …
One in Three US Deaths Would Be Avoided if US Income Distribution Was the Same as Most European Countries
Study: Those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death.
Bill Moyers: Government Is Now a Protection Racket for the 1%
Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …
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Conservatives Are Scared Straight by a Frenchman
Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Wealth Gap Today Is as Bad as It Was in the 1920s, and More
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: those at the very top hold more of the wealth than at any time since 1928, and …
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Four Signs Billionaire Tom Perkins Has Lost Touch With Reality (and Why It Matters)
American multi-billionaire Tom Perkins can't seem to avoid controversy lately.
Easier to Vilify Team Owners than Question Society’s Complicity
The entire NFL has been involved in systematic denial of the long-term effects of game-induced head traumas.
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Sustainability Squared
How we can sustain both the environment and the people.