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Bob Burnett: Waiting for the Revolution

2013-06-14T09:57:12Z

In the latest recovery, 93 percent of the gains went to the top 1 percent. How long will it take before the 99 percent realize they're getting shafted? When will American workers revolt?

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William K. Black: Myerson's Newest Model: 'Tax Poor Workers to Subsidize Rich Bankers'

2013-06-13T08:37:18Z

The reader may wonder whether Roger Myerson is making an effort at irony. No. Our family rule that it is impossible to compete with unintentional self-parody is once again vindicated.

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Sarita Gupta: Calling Out the Corporate Charade

2013-04-17T08:35:41Z

Shareholder season is upon us, marking the beginning of another round of corporate America's dog-and-pony shows held to placate their cronies and pat each other on the back for another profitable year.

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Lisa Mensah: Tax Day for the 99%

2013-04-15T11:16:42Z

For many Americans April 15 is a reminder that those crafting tax laws in Washington seem to be in a different world. Yet we create some of our most important social policy through the tax code.

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Natalie Pace: Get the Mitt Romney 14 Percent Tax Plan

2013-04-09T08:10:30Z

You don't have to have an offshore account to reduce your taxes! There are plenty of legal loopholes that you are probably not taking advantage of.

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Joanna Popper: 13 Tips to Get That Job in 2013 on LinkedIn

2013-02-26T09:49:59Z

6. Do not send job requests in an email with multiple cc's at various companies. Court your contacts. Make them feel special. No one wants to see that you want any old job. We'd like to feel that you want a job from us or with our companies.

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Peter Van Buren: I Am Patient Zero in Our New Economy: Raise the Minimum Wage

2013-02-14T11:27:49Z

In his State of the Union Address, the president said that a person holding down a full-time job should not have to live in poverty in a country like America. I could not agree more; for the last few months I've lived like the people he referred to, and it is not a pretty picture.

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Bob Burnett: Obama's Biggest Challenge: Inequality

2013-02-08T11:11:31Z

In an America that is becoming more unequal every day, addressing economic inequality requires political will, the moral strength to right a wrong. On February 12th, when the president gives his State of the Union address, he'll have an opportunity to target inequality.

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Bryan Young: Exclusive: DC Comics Reveals Two New Politically-Charged Books

2013-02-07T20:55:55Z

With these two brand new titles, DC Comics is taking the themes and issues that came to the surface with the Occupy Wall Street movement and are bringing both sides of the coin into the world of superheroes.

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Ruth Milkman: Who Were the 99 Percent?

2013-02-05T18:26:57Z

Our analysis of a representative survey of Occupy activists and supporters suggest that the political transformation that Occupy engendered among those who gravitated to Zuccotti Park and its counterparts around the country will continue to reverberate for many years to come.

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Camille Rivera: It's Time to 'Flip the Debt'

2013-02-05T16:33:34Z

Reports that the economy shrunk in the last three months of 2012 -- largely due to so-called austerity measures -- is not only bad news for the country: It could be terrible news for the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who depend on the social safety net just to make ends meet.

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Henryk A. Kowalczyk: Crowd Funding and Lotto: Which Is Worse?

2013-01-15T17:00:33Z

The Securities and Exchange Commission is finalizing its work on implementation of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, signed into law by Preside...

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Frances Causey: What Would FDR Do?

2012-12-17T15:44:28Z

If FDR were president today, my guess is he would not meet in secret with the House speaker to cut a backroom deal that would further hammer the 99 percent by reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits. Instead, FDR would call it like he saw it.

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David DeGraw: Occupy Evolver: Realize Your Potential

2012-12-03T12:45:21Z

The same people who mocked us before Occupy started, and said that there would never be a non-violent civil disobedience movement throughout the US, are now the same people saying that Occupy was a once in a lifetime or generational event.

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Eileen Appelbaum: Shameless CEO Campaign Sends Debt-Laden Caesar's CEO to Lecture the 99 Percent on Fixing Debt

2012-11-26T09:36:42Z

It's no surprise that CEOs are drumming up "fiscal cliff" hysteria to protect their wealth. But choosing Caesar's Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman to deliver their message on NPR demonstrates once again how shameless the very rich are in their contempt for the 99 percent.

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Heather McGhee: Politics Belongs to All of Us

2012-11-12T14:52:34Z

On issues like students loans, decent entry-level jobs, the criminalization of poverty and the failed war on drugs, racial segregation and the future of our climate, we now have an opportunity to turn the campaigns that ignited a generation into an enduring force for change.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: 7 Exciting, Inspiring -- and Overlooked -- Lessons From the "99 Percent" Election

2012-11-07T13:38:47Z

This election was a clear and unequivocal victory for the populist positions the president took on the campaign trail. Don't believe the hype: This was a great night for progressives, populists and agents of change.

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Laphonza Butler: Yes on 30 & No on 32: Moving California Forward

2012-11-05T16:26:41Z

Propositions 30 and 32 are pivotal for the future of education, public safety and the voice of hard-working families in our state. They both carry major implications for the future of California.

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Peter S. Goodman: We Are The 100 Percent

2012-10-01T00:02:00Z

As Election Day approaches, much of the nation must surely be experiencing Percent Fatigue. Permit me to inject one more into the mix in an effort to bring this cycle to its necessary fruition: In the end, this election is about the 100 Percent.

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Joan Walsh: What We Can't Afford to Do Again

2012-09-27T08:53:52Z

No matter what's going on in the world, the right can find a cultural issue that will get the left to fight itself, to atomize into little groups, and to give voice to factions that frighten Americans on the sidelines -- often, the left-out white middle and working class -- and the country winds up the worse for it.

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James Napoli: Corporations Angry Over People Insulting Their Profit

2012-09-26T13:01:43Z

Corporations the world over are trying to get to the bottom of disrespectful protests, blogs and videos that make a mockery of the profit they hold so dear.

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Ethan Rome: Mitt Romney: Unfit to Be President

2012-09-19T09:17:39Z

You can't be president of the United States if you don't want to be the president of everyone, but that's what Republican candidate Mitt Romney said in a remarkably arrogant speech to a closed-door high-donor fundraiser -- all captured on video.

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Alfredo Quintana: I Am the 99 Percent and the 47 Percent -- And Anything But the Romney-Percent

2012-09-18T13:01:15Z

How in the world are we supposed to feel about a presidential candidate who is a real "Mr. One Percent" and who explicitly only desires representing no more than 53 percent of us?

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Bernard Whitman: 52 Reasons to Vote for Obama: #27, Mitt Romney

2012-08-30T11:27:33Z

People voting for Romney don't even like him, they just dislike Obama. Of those who would vote for Romney in an April 2012 poll, 63 percent were voting against Obama and only 35 percent were voting for Romney.

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Chris Weigant: Who Threw the Party, and Who Got Occupied?

2012-08-06T22:22:00Z

Both the Occupiers and the Tea Partiers changed the American political conversation in a large way. Still, it cannot be denied that the Tea Party has moved closer to actually changing the American political system and its laws than the Occupiers have managed.

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