Tag: middle class
Rich men versus the rest of us
The new country hit song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” embodies the GOP’s narrative of white male resentment. But collectivism and an embrace of racial diversity are far more powerful and popular.
How worker solidarity protects what’s left of the middle class
Union contracts provide decent wages and benefits along with safe working conditions, retirement security and a means for workers to stand up for themselves.
How upskilling America will rebuild the middle class
Providing workers with a pathway for that upskilling will be essential to meeting the nation’s infrastructure needs.
After Trump: Can the GOP sell itself as the party of...
"The future of the [Republican] party is based on a multiethnic, multiracial working class coalition." and that, “...the free market exists to serve our people. Our people don’t exist to serve the free market.”
A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!
Other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, begrudge plenty and have specific proposals for changing the rules that let wealth keep concentrating.
Why unions matter to you
It all comes down to the balance of power between business and workers.
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
America is Disneyland
America is being eaten alive by corporate greed; and Disneyland has been taken over by Scrooge.
What’s killing America’s middle class?
Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.
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The perilous path from western domination to de-dollarization
De-dollarization is a road fraught with many challenges.
Trump World 2025
The most terrifying war that Trump is planning is his attack on America.
Senate Dems want to cancel all student lunch debt—a ‘term so absurd that it...
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger."
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
Switzerland loses 10% of glacier volume in just two years
“Glaciers are the ambassadors of climate change. They make it very clear what is happening out there because they respond in a very sensitive way to warming temperatures.”