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Patriotic Millionaires Condemn Trump’s Plan to Gut Healthcare to Benefit the Wealthy
“Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality”
Tagged income inequality
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Justice Denied for Merrick Garland and the American People
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It continues to be denied to the American people.
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Hillary Clinton’s Brilliant Education Plan Will Work And End Education Wars
Clinton promises to be a champion for education by not taking advice from people interested in breaking unions and privatizing schools.
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Trickle-Down to Keep-the-Worker-Down: It’s Not the “Skills Gap” Driving Down Wages
Witness the reality of the GOP’s keep-the worker-down economics and its persistent drive to re-distribute wealth from the bottom to the top
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Half Of America is Now Impoverished Because the Koch-Republicans Destroyed the Middle Class
The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income
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To Address America’s Poverty Epidemic Doctors To Start Screening For Child Hunger
According to pediatricians, doctors should start screening their child patients for hunger, and the lesser-known problem of food insecurity
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Republican Welfare Reform Pushed A Third Of America’s Children Into Extreme Poverty
The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in 2013 than in 2008
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Trump Thinks He Can Scare the Pope, Whom He is Pretty Sure Doesn’t Hate Capitalism
Donald Trump wants to pit his fourth-grade level rhetoric against the Pope to convince him only capitalism can keep ISIL out of the Vatican
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Donald Trump Advises Automakers To Kill Jobs To Increase Corporate Profits
Trump’s plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney’s underhanded tactics at Bain Capital
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The Entire World Knows GOP Trickle Down Is Disastrous For Americans And The Economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has finally conducted comprehensive research and reported what every conscious human being on Earth already knows like they know the Sun rises in the East; GOP trickle-down economics is a certifiable economic disaster that reliably retards economic growth, kills jobs, and increases income inequality.
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Don’t Be Fooled Because Kansas Republicans Admit Trickle Down Is a Scam
Kansas’ Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a scam. In fact, although not quite stating “our only economic policy is a scam to enrich corporations and the wealthy,” just admitting they have to raise taxes to plug gaping revenue holes and more recently, that income inequality is a problem in America, is just as good.
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Darrell Issa Opened His Mouth And Shot Republicans In The Foot On Income Inequality
The wealthiest member of Congress, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has a message for America’s poor people. During an interview with CNN, Issa said that America’s poor are the envy of the world.
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John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the Rich
Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the “Estate Tax” and give the very richest of the rich another government handout at the expense of the rest of the population.
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Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem
Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?
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MLK Would Join Obama’s Fight Against The Racist GOP Economic Agenda
In fact, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that Republicans represent that Dr. King would even tepidly support, and in fact he would be leading the fight against everything conservatives stand for; whether they are social, racial, or economic policies.
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Despite Obama’s National Economic Success Republican State Economies Are Failing
Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is “the party of solutions” founded on conservative pro-growth economic policies, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich they claimed were more successful than anything “hapless” Democrats or Obama could ever hope to achieve. This is despite the President’s nearly five-year job growth record, world-leading GDP growth, and increased revenue paying down the nation’s debt at a record pace.
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A Stroke Of Obama’s Pen Will Lift 10.4 Million Workers Into the Middle Class
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
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Inconvenient Truth: America’s Public Schools Are Among Highest Achieving In The World
If, as privatization “reformers” in Republican, corporate, and Obama Education Department claim that America’s public schools are dire failures, then America’s wealthy public schools with unionized teachers, and tenure, would be failing and not at the “top of the international charts.”
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Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty
Perry’s message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those suffering, and people in Texas are suffering, but not because it is written in scripture.
Decent Economic Growth Hides The Increasing Gap Between the Rich and Everyone Else
As long as the wealthy continue benefitting from the President’s economic recovery, Republicans will stay the austerity course that continues retarding growth despite one 4th quarter report that GDP ticked up to 3 percent.
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Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message
Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their selfish economic ideology.
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Republicans Are Making Sure That the Economic Recovery Only Benefits the Rich
If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only beneficiaries of good economic reports are Wall Street and corporations .
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Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality
A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the life out of the population, and holding back the economy.
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Stop Complaining Republicans, the Minimum Wage Should be $22.62 an Hour
Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the minimum wage kept pace with the top 1%, it would be $22.62 an hour.
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Are Wal-Mart’s Financials A Light Bulb Moment?
There was a little glimmer of light in the Southern skies last week. It wasn’t exactly a light bulb flashing on over Wal-Mart corporate, but it did look as though someone was fumbling with the switch.
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Bernie Sanders Storms the Senate Floor and Challenges Congress’ Koch Whores
In a must see 25 minute speech, Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and challenged Congress to break free of its billionaire masters and work for the American people.
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Daring to Speak the Truth About Job Creation Gets Venture Capitalist Shunned
It wasn’t just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative assumptions.
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May Day 2012: A Protest Against Everything The Republican Party Stands For
This protest is against everything the Republican Party stands for and works diligently to perpetuate with their relentless Draconian spending cuts to fund corporate and wealthy tax breaks.
