Middle Class Squeeze

More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining

Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Poverty, Financial Reform, Middle Class, Wall Streeet, Obama, Recession, Austerity, Campaign Finance, Middle-Class Squeeze, Campaign Finance Reform, Occupy Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Obama Fundraising, Fundraising, Wall Street Bonuses, Financial Regulation, Business News
Dennis M. Kelleher

Ignoring all evidence and facts, Wall Street is reported to be "an industry that the White House has thoroughly and repeatedly demonized and demoralized" -- what?

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Middle-Class Jobs Disappearing In Workforce Shift: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Income Gap, Middle-Class Squeeze, Video, Middle Class Jobs, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Middle Class, Middle Class Poverty, Middle Class Unemployment, Suburban Poverty, Wealth Gap, Middle Class Workforce, Business News

America is increasingly becoming a place of high- and low-skill jobs, with less room available for a middle class. A new report from the Federal R...

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Corporations Tailoring Product Lines To Reflect Growing Income Inequality

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Income Gap, U.S. Economy, Middle-Class Squeeze, Unemployment, Third World America, Income Inequality, Middle Class, Gini Coefficient, Wealth Gap, Procter & Gamble, Video, Business News

As the American economy struggles to shake off a torpor that threatens to drag the country back into recession, the gap continues to grow between the ...

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American Inequality: Who Is Subsidizing Our Lifestyle?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Middle-Class Squeeze, American Greed, Economy, Selfishness, Immigrants, Obama, Recession, Republicans, Great Depression, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

The current recession has brought into stark relief an underlying flaw, not in American economics but in our consciousness. Money is creating a new, selfish class whose only interest seems to be in greed.

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There Are Zero Good Reasons to Block Elizabeth Warren

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Middle-Class Squeeze, Wall Street Reform, Wall Street, Megan McArdle, Financial Reform, Regulation, Obama, Subprime, Cfpb, Consumer Protection, Mike Konczal, Business News
Zach Carter

The political case for appointing Warren is even stronger than the policy case. Choosing anybody other than Warren will not make Obama appear reasonable or moderate--it will make him look weak and corruptible.

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Metro Inequality: What Cities Can Do About the Shrinking Middle Class

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Prevailing Wage, Urban Policy, Middle Class, Metropolitan Policy Program, Paid Sick Days, Jobs, Living Wage, Brookings Institution, Inequality, Cities, Politics News
Amy Traub

Even the good times of the 2000s weren't so good for most of Americans, since a disproportionate share of the gains went to the very highest income earners.

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Junk Economics and the Assault on the Middle Class

Garrett Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Class War, Business News
Garrett Johnson

This recession isn't cyclical, and the problems are systemic. We didn't get here by accident. Choices were made by very wealthy and powerful people, and those choices can be reversed.

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Middle-Income Families Can Slip Through Cracks of ECE Policy

James Mejia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Early Childhood Education, Education, Pre-K, Middle-Class-Squeeze, Early Learning Challenge Fund, Middle Class, Preschool, Denver News
James Mejia

Early childhood education is again on the minds of our elected officials. Last month, the House passed the Early Learning Challenge Fund, which gives states a chance at $8 billion in competitive grants.

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A Personal Appeal: The Middle-Class Health Tax Must Be Stopped

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Union Benefits, Middle-Class Squeeze, Tax Policy, Tax Inequity, Middle Class, Excise Tax, Health Reform, "Cadillac" Tax, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The so-called (and misnamed) "Cadillac tax" is unfair and unwise. It's also a political landmine for its supporters, and a political goldmine for those who oppose all health reform.

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Blowback: New Evidence The Health Tax Is Unfair, Unwise ... and Could Be Political Suicide

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Excise Tax, Cadillac Tax, Health Reform, Senate Health Bill, Health Benefits, Deepak Chopra, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The silver lining, according to many economists who support the Cadillac insurance tax, is that employers will then take the money they're not spending on health care and give it to their workers as wages. That's probably wrong.

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The War on Labor Day

Elana Levin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Labor, Take Back Labor Day, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Day, Corporations, Trade, Middle Class, Corporate Power, Unions, Nafta, Workers Rights, Politics News
Elana Levin

Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.

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