Tag: 401(k)
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the...
So if Americans agree that our elders should never again return to having to age in poverty, there are several ways we can shore up the Social Security system.
Some straight talk for younger people on Social Security (and Medicare...
As the scaremongering begins, this is your fight too!
The huge tax heist
The moneyed interests who run the GOP depend on the Trump bomb to divert attention from their huge heist.
The Stock Market Is Getting Harder to Rig
The U.S. economy is in sad shape. Yet, corporate media tries to explain the recent stock market decline, which erased $2.1 trillion in the market value of stocks and in the pockets of Americans’ retirement savings, so logically.
VIDEO: 'Casino Capitalism: Economist Michael Hudson on What’s Behind the Stock...
While Americans watched stock prices tumble across the globe in Monday’s market turmoil, economist Michael Hudson joins Democracy Now to help make sense of what’s really behind the fluctuations in the market.
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Six lessons for America: How endless Trumpist lawbreaking drives his fascist takeover scheme
Trump’s infamy expands quicker than Pinocchio's nose—so much so it’s dawning on even backward Americans that Trump has gone way too far.
How America can lower gas prices like other countries
While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.
New study reveals children born close to fracking more likely to develop childhood leukemia
Not only are children at a greater risk of developing ALL from toxic air pollution, but the study said that fracking also contaminates drinking water, which causes more exposure to cancer-linked chemicals.
Debunking 4 myths about inflation
Inflation is being driven in large part by record corporate profits.
A military rich in dollars, poor in people
A frayed social safety net and the military.