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You are Working Harder and Getting Paid Less
A research paper titled “Decomposing the Productivity-Wage Nexus in Selected OECD Countries, 1986-2013,” studied 11 advanced-capitalist countries and found that in eight of them median wages have not kept pace with growth in labor productivity. To put ...[Read more]
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Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in Britain, report finds
Homelessness is now a serious risk for working families with stable jobs who cannot find somewhere affordable to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords seeking higher rents, the local government ombudsman has warned. Michael King said nurses ...[Read more]
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Top .001% Making 636% More Since 1980, But GOP Tax Scam Will Turbocharge Inequality
A new report released Thursday finds that economic inequality has soared in nearly every country around the world, with the United States' income and wealth gaps widening to a particularly extreme degree compared to European and other countries. The World ...[Read more]
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Security robot bullied and forced off the street in San Francisco
A robot patrolling a street in San Francisco to ward off homeless people has been removed after complaints from locals, who also knocked it over and smeared it with feces. The Knightscope K5 security robot was deployed by the San Francisco branch of the S ...[Read more]
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Corporate Rule or Development? Gulf Between Rich and Poor Plagues WTO
The World Trade Organization is struggling to balance the interests of wealthy countries, such as the United States, with those of China and other less-developed countries. The 11th World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...[Read more]
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Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty in America, the world’s richest nation
The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the US to hold the world’s richest nation – and its president – to account for the hardships endured by America’s most vulnerable citizens. The ...[Read more]
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America’s War on America
The vultures have started circling. In a sane world, legislation that adds $1.5 trillion to America’s debt (already over $20 trillion and rising by the second) would not be celebrated as “just what the country needs to get growing again.” Yet here w ...[Read more]
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George Soros seeks a one world government to serve oligarchs, not the people – US State Senator
For people like Soros and the globalists; they view the nation-state as a problem, because the nation expresses the will of the people of that nation, and it serves their personal interest, Richard Black, Republican Virginia state Senator, told RT. ...[Read more]
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House Tax Bill Is Littered With Loopholes for Wall Street’s Wealthiest
Lawmakers who sped a bill through the U.S. House last week may have handed a few more goodies to Wall Street’s wealthiest than they realize. Investors in billion-dollar hedge funds might be able to take advantage of a new, lower tax rate touted as a bre ...[Read more]
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A millionaire explains why he wants to pay more taxes
Middle-class voters are in agreement with a surprising group of people: millionaires. Since 2010, a group called Patriotic Millionaires has fought for the closure of a number of tax loopholes and workarounds that allow people like them to pay less while t ...[Read more]
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GOP Tax Bill Would Trigger $25 Billion in Cuts to Medicare, Warns CBO
Progressives on Tuesday urged Trump critics to voice their opposition to the tax bill that House Republicans are hoping to push through, after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the legislation could put billions of dollars in Medicare sp ...[Read more]
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