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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Poll: More Than Two-Thirds Of Americans Want To Raise Taxes on the Wealthy
Sixty-eight percent say wealthy households pay too little in federal taxes, 60 percent say the middle class pays too much, and more than half favor raising capital gains taxes on households of $500,000.
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New Evidence that Half of America Is Broke
While jubilant headlines depict growing financial wealth, half of our nation, by all reasonable estimates of human need, is in poverty.
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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When Mainstream Meets Occupy: What the New Democratic Message Might Look Like
The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the country's income growth as the average incomes of the 99 percent fall, and Americans know it – which is why politicians and mainstream economists are now scrambling to respond.
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Meet the Extreme Super Rich – These 80 People Own More Than the World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion
The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009 is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.”
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London’s Supremacy Grows As Britain’s North-South Economic Divide Widens
As London and the towns and cities in its vicinity flourish with new jobs, talent and money, life to the North is being choked.
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Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
The pay ratio between the highest- and lowest-paid worker-owners in cooperatives is between 3:1 and 5:1, compared with a ratio of roughly 600:1 in traditional corporations.
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New Oxfam Report Shows Half Of Global Wealth Is Held By the 1%
Rising inequality is dangerous. A concentration of wealth capturing power is leaving ordinary people voiceless.
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Obama’s Budget Proposal Takes Aim At the Wealthy
President Obama plans to propose raising $320 billion over the next 10 years in new taxes targeting wealthy individuals and big financial institutions to pay for new programs designed to help lower- and middle-income families
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The Year We Build Power Together
The social movement can begin 2015 with a major victory over corporate power.
