March 6, 2013
Income inequality exacerbates wealth inequality and it is much worse than most people realize. 

Income inequality exacerbates wealth inequality and it is much worse than most people realize. 

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Filed under: wealth inequality politics 
March 4, 2013

secretrepublic:

Wealth Inequality in America

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Filed under: fairness dumbness inequality wealth 
February 13, 2013
think-progress: President Obama’s audience tonight. Our audience was right over here. And who payed the least attention?

think-progress:

President Obama’s audience tonight.

Our audience was right over here.

And who payed the least attention?

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Filed under: sotu inequality politics fairness 
January 24, 2013
Ill Fares the Land

tetw:

by Tony Judt

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The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears “natural” today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation, the cult of privatization and the private sector, the growing disparities of rich and poor.

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Filed under: tony judt politics liberalism inequality 
November 26, 2012
"Rock/roll/die"

— Or not. Platinum records = premium health care.

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Filed under: rock and roll rolling stones inequality 
November 7, 2012
source2012: This is a stat we almost wish we hadn’t found. Did all that super PAC spending make a difference? We’re keeping score on 21 popular races here. (Sources: CPI, HHS.gov) Disgusting.

source2012:

This is a stat we almost wish we hadn’t found.

Did all that super PAC spending make a difference? We’re keeping score on 21 popular races here.

(Sources: CPI, HHS.gov)

Disgusting.

(via opensecretsdc)

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Filed under: inequality poverty superpacs injustice wrongness 
October 25, 2012
bostonreview: Postcard from the future of sport [via Benjamin Paloff]

bostonreview:

Postcard from the future of sport [via Benjamin Paloff]

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Filed under: romney election 2012 inequality 
October 16, 2012
Suspicion about this chart’s scale nothwithstanding, this is disconcerting trend. Even The Economist is concerned about rising inequality.

Suspicion about this chart’s scale nothwithstanding, this is disconcerting trend. Even The Economist is concerned about rising inequality.

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Filed under: demos economics fairness inequality the economist politics class warfare stability 
September 27, 2012
Student loan debt hits record 1 in 5 US householdsThe Christian Science Monitor, csmonitor.com With col­lege enroll­ment grow­ing, stu­dent debt has stretched to a record num­ber of U.S. house­holds — near­ly 1 in 5 — with the biggest bur­dens falling on the young and poor. The analy­sis by the Pew Research Cen­ter found that 22.4 mil­lio… Don’t I fucking know it.

Student loan debt hits record 1 in 5 US households
The Christian Science Monitor, csmonitor.com

With col­lege enroll­ment grow­ing, stu­dent debt has stretched to a record num­ber of U.S. house­holds — near­ly 1 in 5 — with the biggest bur­dens falling on the young and poor.

The analy­sis by the Pew Research Cen­ter found that 22.4 mil­lio…

Don’t I fucking know it.

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Filed under: student loans debt despair inequality 
September 18, 2012
theatlantic: Happy Birthday Occupy! Income Inequality Is Still Getting Worse. Occupy Wall Street may well have been the first global protest movement to rally around a statistic cribbed from an economics paper. So to mark its one year anniversary today, I thought I’d break out some of the latest numbers tracking U.S. inequality, courtesy of this month’s Census Bureau recent report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage.  From 2010 to 2011, the top 5 percent of U.S. households upped their share of the country’s income by 5.3 percent. The top 20 percent got a 1.6 percent bump. And while the country’s poorest saw their piece of the pie grow by a smidgen, the middle classes lost ground. Read more. [Image: Jordan Weissmann] Decades-long trends don’t change in a year, especially when no substantive policy changes have been made.

theatlantic:

Happy Birthday Occupy! Income Inequality Is Still Getting Worse.

Occupy Wall Street may well have been the first global protest movement to rally around a statistic cribbed from an economics paper. So to mark its one year anniversary today, I thought I’d break out some of the latest numbers tracking U.S. inequality, courtesy of this month’s Census Bureau recent report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage. 

From 2010 to 2011, the top 5 percent of U.S. households upped their share of the country’s income by 5.3 percent. The top 20 percent got a 1.6 percent bump. And while the country’s poorest saw their piece of the pie grow by a smidgen, the middle classes lost ground.

Read more. [Image: Jordan Weissmann]

Decades-long trends don’t change in a year, especially when no substantive policy changes have been made.

(via kiplinger)

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Filed under: inequality The 1% policy politics occupy Wall Street give up 
September 17, 2012
Beat the odds but feeling beaten down regardless. I understand from experience why someone would want to avoid the stress of social mobility and the anxiety of having distinctions of class thrown into painfully sharp relief.

Beat the odds but feeling beaten down regardless. I understand from experience why someone would want to avoid the stress of social mobility and the anxiety of having distinctions of class thrown into painfully sharp relief.

(Source: kiplinger)

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Filed under: culture of poverty higher education inequality social mobility politics 
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