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Mitt Romney running a seminar on inequality
January 27, 2012Should we all start praying for Mitt Romney? The GOP presidential hopeful from Bain Capital has become a walking, talking object lesson on how our plutocracy works - and why we desperately need to end it.
Read moreWinners and losers in South Carolina
January 23, 2012While Gingrich won, the concerns of the American people were the biggest losers.
Read more‘Tis the season to be jolly on Wall Street
December 9, 2011Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking about the rest of us.
Read moreThe real turkey talk at our dinner table
December 2, 2011My mother and stepfather live in Festus, Mo. They are working class folks.
Read moreJobless enter Capitol, demand benefits extension
December 1, 2011Two hundred unemployed workers marched into the halls of Congress yesterday and served their lawmakers with 75,000 signatures on petitions demanding extension of unemployment benefits for the six million Americans about to lose them.
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