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Posted 3/11/2008
Totally spent
By Robert B. Reich
New York Times
Feb. 13, 2008
We’re sliding into recession, or worse, and Washington is turning to the normal remedies for economic downturns. But the normal remedies are not likely to work this time, because this isn’t a normal downturn.
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Posted 10/52007
The secret billionaire giveaway
By Paul Gallagher
Reuters
September 21, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - He wears a $15 watch, flies economy class and does not own a house or car. For years few guessed that Chuck Feeney was one of the world's biggest philanthropists, secretly giving away his billionaire fortune.
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Posted 9/13/2007
Smashing capitalism!
By Barbara Ehrenreich
HuffingtonPost.com
Posted August 22, 2007, on Alternet
The American poor, who are usually tactful enough to remain invisible to the multi-millionaire class, suddenly leaped onto the scene and started smashing the global financial system.
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Posted 8/14/2007
Why even the new minimum wage
is not a fair wage
Opinion by Doug Gatlin
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
August 13, 2007
The debate about "minimum wage" is not the debate that really should be occurring among people of faith, people of goodwill, and people who believe that we are stronger as a nation when each individual and every family is stronger. Our debate should be about what constitutes a “fair wage,” a wage families can live on without public assistance.
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Posted 1/10/2007
Want CEO pay reform? Don't hold your breath
Opinion by Bill Virgin
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 4, 2007
In the interest of providing real solutions to the nation's healthcare financial crisis, we offer a cost-effective replacement for expensive prescription drugs designed to raise patients' blood pressure: The corporate proxy statement.
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Posted 7/17/2006
Minimum wage: Lowest in 50 years
By The Progress Report
June 22, 2006
The buying power of the federal minimum wage is currently at its lowest level in 51 years. Eighty-three percent of Americans favor an increase in the minimum wage (nearly half "strongly support" it). Yet, the House conservative leadership hasn't allowed a full floor vote on the minimum wage since the last increase went into effect, in 1997.
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Posted 12/20/2005
America Needs a Tax System that Reflects its Values
By Ted Halstead
The Financial Times
Oct. 27, 2005
America 's current tax system is as wrong-headed as it is backward: it discourages savings, job creation and higher wages, while encouraging energy consumption, waste and environmental degradation.
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Highest Wage States are in the East, Lowest in the South
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Associated Press
Nov. 29, 2005
Americans have been migrating south and west for decades, but it appears they've been leaving some high-paying jobs behind. While there are many pockets of wealth in the South and West, the states with the highest wage earners line the East Coast, according to Census data released Tuesday.
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Posted 7/28/2004
> Survey: Minorities Perceive, Receive Less Pay Equity
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 21, 2004)
Race matters -- at least when it comes to workers' perception of whether they're being paid fairly, according to a national survey released Tuesday. Overall, half of the 3,712 working men and women polled believe they're being paid on par with others who do similar work, the Hudson Compensation Survey found. But attitudes differ significantly along racial lines.
Posted 7/6/2004
> The Fight of Our Lives
(AlterNet, June 16, 2004)
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Some things are worth getting mad about. Case in point: the growing, vast equality gap between the richest and the poorest Americans. If this isn't class war, what is?
Posted 5/11/2004
> Overtime Pay Revisions Benefit More Workers
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 27, 2004)
Editorial: A year ago, a Bush administration proposal to revamp overtime rules set off alarms and concerned voices, with none louder than unions. Some labor leaders said the move smacked of an attempt to set back the clock to the early 20th century -- the bleak days before overtime.
Posted 5/10/2004
> Payday Loan Law Goes to the Courts
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 26, 2004)
Advocates for the working poor and the elderly appeared before legislative committees with heart-breaking stories of how a loan of just a few hundred dollars to cover an unexpected car repair or medical expense quickly became a debt of thousands, and, sometimes, tens of thousands, of dollars.
Posted 1/14/2003
> Threat to Democracy: Economic Disparity in America
By James T. Laney and Andrew Young
(Faith And The City E-Letter, January 14, 2003)
Imagine the positive impact that our 35 million poor people could have if we recognize that -- economically empowered -- they can contribute potentially hundreds of billions of dollars to the nation's prosperity. Consider the impact that a billon poor people today -- developed into a productive market segment -- could have on the international economy.
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