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The President’s Early Learning Proposal
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Tagged children, early education, economy, education, headstart, United States, video
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Paid via Card, Workers Feel Sting of Fees
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Stephanie Clifford A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee. For these largely hourly workers, paper paychecks and even direct deposit … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Debit card, economy, employment, fees, JPMorgan Chase, McDonald, Milwaukee, Paycheck, Stored-value card, United States, Wage
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7 Institutions That Have Grown So Monstrously Big They Threaten to Destroy America
By Richard Eskow Bigger isn’t always better. From the Tower of Babel to Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting, that principle’s been enshrined in law and legend since the dawn of history. Have we forgotten the lesson? Corporations, databases, storehouses of personal and … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, business, corporations, economy, influence, investing, law, life, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, politics, Taco Bell, United States, wall street, Walmart
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Child Poverty Has Risen Even As Unemployment Falls
By Bryce Covert Even as unemployment has gradually declined, the child poverty rate has been on the rise, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Between 2010 and 2011, the number of children living in poverty … Continue reading
Big Lie: America Doesn’t Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World…We’re Ranked 27th!
By Les Leopold America is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the most billionaires and our wealthiest citizens have garnered more of the planet’s riches than any other group in the world. We even have hedge … Continue reading
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Tagged AlterNet, American dream, business, economy, investing, life, middle class, money, United States, wealth
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Urban Institute Updates 1965 Moynihan Report on Black Poverty
The National Urban League Wire Nearly five decades ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report for the U.S. Department of Labor, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, provoked a firestorm of debate in its probing of the roots of … Continue reading
RIP, American Dream? Why It’s So Hard For the Poor to Get Ahead Today
By Matthew O’Brien The American Dream isn’t dead. It’s just moved to Denmark.Now, we like to think of ourselves as a classless society, but it isn’t true today. As the Brookings Institution has pointed out, America has turned into a … Continue reading
NYC casinos? Make that 7 years, Cuomo says
By Chris Bragg After months of arguing that New York should initially site three casinos in upstate New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday morning that he had decided to push for four, while also pushing for a longer moratorium on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Cuomo, business, casinos, Cuomo, economy, entertainment, Gambling, New York, New York City, Upstate New York
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Do private-sector unions still have a future in the U.S.?
By Brad Plumer In the latest issue of Democracy, Rich Yeselson has a long and interesting essay considering the decline of private-sector labor unions in the United States and whether they might ever make a comeback. The piece is way … Continue reading
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American power in the 21st century will be defined by the ‘rise of the rest’
By Joseph S. Nye Jr. In the last century, the United States rose from the status of second-tier power to being the world’s sole superpower. Some worry that the United States will be eclipsed in this century by China, but … Continue reading →