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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1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills
A new report found that 3.2 million California families don't earn enough income to pay for food, rent, health care and other essentials “to maintain even an adequate level of economic security.”
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Billionaires to the Barricades?
Since Occupy Wall Street, populist politicians and liberal intellectuals have been inveighing against income inequality – but more recently, the topic has been taken up by a different and unlikely group of advocates: billionaires.
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CEO Pay At America's Largest Corporations Rose 54% Since Recovery Began
Chief executives at the country's 350 biggest companies made an average of $16.3 million each last year – but while their compensation soared, the typical worker’s paycheck hasn’t budged.
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Nationwide Anti-Austerity Protests Reveal Magnitude of Inequality Anguish In Britain
A quarter-million protesters gathered outside the Bank of England and march to Parliament to protest austerity.
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New Data Reveals How The Richest 0.001 Percent Pay Income Taxes
Tax day doesn’t sting much if you live at the gilded edge.
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We Need a New Economic System
It's time to begin the careful work of knitting together broad, pluralistic conceptions of what a transformed system might look like.
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The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy
A few years ago there was considerable debate about “peak oil," but now we may be reaching a more dangerous point: peak plutocracy, where society and the environment can sustain no more concentration of power and resources.
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Can Non-Wall Street Democrats Present a Real Plan To Empower Workers?
Abandoned for decades by a party eager to cozy up to Wall Street and advance a neoliberal economic agenda, unions are once again being lauded by top Democratic Party leaders. But what's behind the warm embrace?
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Why Bernie Sanders Is the Only Populist Candidate for President
Whether or not this opponent of the billionaire class, corporate greed, Wall Street and environmental degradation – and this champion of working people, the unemployed, retirees, and student debtors – is our next president will be entirely up to us.
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Unequal States of America: Trillions in New Wealth, Millions of Children in Poverty
America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion – and in approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.
