The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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These Seven Giant U.S. Corporations Pay Their CEOs More Than They Pay In Taxes
Boeing, Chevron, Citigroup, Ford, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase and General Motors declared more than $74 billion in combined U.S. pre-tax profits in 2013 – and paid their CEOs on average $17.3 million each.
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American Rich Beware: The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
Americans want what 21st century politics has so far not delivered: real options for challenging concentrated wealth.
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U.K. Coalition Government Helped Rich By Hammering Poor
The report to be released Monday shows key British politicians enabling a significant transfer of income from the least well-off half of the population to the more affluent in the past four years.
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The Billion Dollar A Month Club: A Runaway Transfer of Wealth to the Super-Rich
As the stock market climbs to new heights, and the regulations that once protected the majority of Americans have disappeared, is it time to admit our society is split beyond repair?
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As City Profits Pour In, India's Rural School Meals Tragedy Is Due To Be Repeated
For the last three years this small, one-room school hasn’t seen a single midday meal served to its impoverished students – nor have cooks across the country been paid.
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Rising to the Top: 5 Stunning Facts About Our Vanishing Middle Class Wealth
With the 1% raking it in like never before, people in the U.S. and around the world are being rapidly divided into two classes: the well-to-do and the lower-income majority.
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Our Less-Than-Empathetic Rich: Who Gives What to Whom and Why?
Low- and middle-income people give a greater share of their incomes to charity than people of decidedly more ample means.
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Time for Pitchforks: Why The Obscene Wealth Gap Can Only Mean One Thing
Americans greatly underestimate the degree of inequality in our country – and if we were given proper media coverage of the endless takeaway of wealth by the super rich, we'd be taking it personally.
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Then They Fight You: Plutocrats on the Defensive Against Social Justice Movements
Wealthy people are often so isolated from the rest of us, many of them have forgotten how rich they really are.
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Can Anti-Corruption Candidate Rick Weiland Upend South Dakota's Senate Race?
Toss-up races like Kansas and South Dakota may be the ones that decide whether or not Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate.
