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Obama Has to Explain Why Fairness Is Essential to Growth (and Why Some Democrats Have to Stop Believing Otherwise)

Robert Reich | Posted 05.24.2012

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Robert Reich

Mitt Romney epitomizes the unfairness of the American economy in this new Gilded Age. For that same reason, Romney is the quintessence of an economic approach shown to be anti-growth and anti-jobs. The president needs to tell this to the American people.

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Protesters Occupy Shareholder Meeting At Major Bank

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Morgan Stanley, The 99% Spring, Reuters, Occupy Wall Street, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Servicing, Corporate Secretary Martin Cohen, Ceo, CEO Compensation, James Gorman, Moody's, Business News

* Gorman faces tough questions from protesters * Shareholders approve pay and director proposals * Chants drown out vote...

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Art Investments Beat Stocks, Real Estate Over Last Decade (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.02.2012

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Sick of losing your money in a volatile stock market? Start buying art instead. That’s been the strategy of the world’s wealthiest investor...

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A French Spring and a New Enlightenment for Jobs and Justice

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, French Presidential Election, Euro Crisis, French Spring, Bank Bailouts, Francois Hollande, European Debt Crisis, France, Eurozone Crisis, World News
Brent Budowsky

The increasingly likely victory of Francois Hollande in the French presidential election would be the shot for economic justice and jobs that will be heard around the world.

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We, the Shareholders (Not the People)

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.30.2012

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Carl Gibson

In a true democracy, our officials are elected by and held accountable to us, the citizen, the highest office in the land. By focusing on the issues that unite instead of divide, and organizing with other citizens who meet on common ground, we can reject the status quo and its servants.

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Elizabeth Warren Will Lead

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Fair Wages, Workers, Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown, Jobs, Fair Deal, Integrity, Teddy Roosevelt, Joblesssness, 99 Percent, Margaret Thatcher, Economic Equity, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Consumers, Help the Poor, Franklin Roosevelt, Homes Veterans, Massachusetts Senate Race, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

In a Washington full of revolving-door sellouts who effortlessly glide between special-interest sinecures and government jobs earning personal fortunes on the payroll of the 1 percent, Elizabeth Warren will never sell her public conscience for private wealth.

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Top 10 Federal Tax Charts

Chuck Marr | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Taxes, Defense Spending, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Income Inequality, Bush Tax Cuts, Tax Charts, Income Taxes, Infographics, Tax Reform, Tax Infographic, Politics News
Chuck Marr

2012-04-18-imagepull2.jpgWe've collected our top ten charts related to federal taxes. Together, they provide useful context for the coming debates about how to reduce soaring budget deficits and reform the tax code.

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Income Inequality Worse Under Obama Than George W. Bush

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.11.2012

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President Obama may talk a big game about economic fairness, but his record on the issue doesn't quite match up. There are lots of reasons to think...

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Would You Like A Therapist With That Bank Account?

Mother Jones | Erika Eichelberger | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Super Rich, 1 Percent, Mental Health, Wealth Counselors, Wealth Counseling, Psychologists, Buying Happiness, Big Banks, Happiness, Money News

Maybe money can buy happiness--if your bank comes with a therapist. The unhappy Scrooge McDucks of the world no longer have to rely on their butler...

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Money Study Compares Compassion Of Rich, Poor

| Daisy Grewal | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Wealthy, The 1%, Empathy, Research, Money, Wealthiest People, Science, Rich, Compassion, Study, Poor People, Selfish, Richest People, Rich People, Video, Occupy Wall Street, Social Class, Wealthy People, Science News

Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s tempting to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely y...

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In America, A Rising Tide Lifts Only Some Boats

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Income Gap, U.S. Economy, Poverty, Consumer Debt, Income Inequality, Spending Inequality, Consumer Spending, Wealth Gap, Consumption Inequality, Video, Great Recession, Spending, Inequality, Business News

It doesn't just seem like America is dividing into two nations -- one where luxury spending is going strong, the other where more and more people can'...

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Tax Audits Go More Smoothly For The Rich

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.09.2012

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Here's another way the rich are different: If they get audited by the IRS, they have a much better chance of dealing with an actual person. Accordi...

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OWS Triumphant: Obama, Romney and the Politics of Inequality

Richard Brodsky | Posted 04.05.2012

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Richard Brodsky

What Obama's doing is forcing a debate about the most fundamental question before the nation: Do we govern in the interest of the 1 percent or do we govern in the interest of the 99 percent?

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Stop the Presses: The Rich Get Richer

Steven Clifford | Posted 04.02.2012

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Steven Clifford

The New York Times published an op-ed titled "The Rich Get Even Richer." I guess their next scoops will be "Hudson River Full of Water" and "Pope Benedict XVI Is Catholic."

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How Do The Rich Change When You Raise Their Taxes?

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.27.2012

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The rich are responsible for creating most of America's jobs. Raise their taxes and many of those jobs will disappear -- so say the rich, anyway. ...

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Occupy the Empty Space

Benjamin Shepard | Posted 05.19.2012

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Benjamin Shepard

Occupy the Empty Space believes housing is a human right. Unfortunately, the 1% has turned it into something barely accessible -- if accessible at all -- for far too many of the 99%.

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What One Percenters Are Worried About

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.14.2012

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Worried about losing your job? Afraid you'll hit retirement age with nothing in the bank? The richest people in America apparently feel your pain. ...

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What The One Percent Majored In

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.12.2012

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College graduates earn almost one million and a half dollars over the course of a 40 year career on average, compared to about half that for those wit...

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Turns Out Recovery Is For The Rich

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.05.2012

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Technically, the economy has been in recovery for two years. But it turns out the rich have been doing most of the recovering. In 2010 -- the first...

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A Rally To 'Save The 1 Percent'

Mother Jones | Posted 04.28.2012

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Located a short drive from the cute Main Street, the grounds of the Castlewood Country Club once surrounded a 53-room mansion inhabited by Phoebe Appe...

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How Does the 1% Exploit America? Find Out in 1 Minute (VIDEO)

Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.17.2012

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Robert Greenwald

Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don't know exactly how the 1% does what it does. The mainstream media hasn't explained it, and the 1% likes things that way.

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Calling Wealthy Democrats

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.10.2012

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Brent Budowsky

Citizens United destroys the American notion of citizenship by creating separate and unequal classes of Americans. It creates a de facto American House of Lords, in which all other Americans are relegated to second-class citizenship.

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Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk'd Workers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.24.2012

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Leo W. Gerard

A corporation is accountable to its workers, its customers, its community, its country. The executives who run American corporations have forgotten that. Or they reject it.

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What CEOs and Hedge Funds Don't Want the 99% to Understand

Roger Martin | Posted 03.15.2012

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Roger Martin

Stock-based compensation has produced a volatility machine and that volatility is wrecking the American economy, while it makes CEOs and hedge fund managers rich.

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Faceless Movements

Fron Nahzi | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Egypt, Social Media, Civic Engagement, Islamic Radicals, Tunisia, Russia, Age of Information, Libya, Twitter, Democracy, United States, Occupy Wall Street, Facebook, Bahrain, World News
Fron Nahzi

Participatory democracy in the Age of Information has turned out to be no more participatory than it ever was in states undergoing the transition from dictatorship and repression.

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