May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
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How I go to the woods
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single...
– Mary Oliver (via serialstranger)
Robert Reich: The Morality Brigade →
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We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America.
In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in “Roe v. Wade,” which gave women the right to…
Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Democrats... →
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Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation. This is even before they’ve started budget negotiations with…
February 2013
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January 2013
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Robert Reich: The Hoax of Entitlement Reform →
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It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America’s looming deficits is to “reform entitlements.”
But the accepted wisdom is wrong.
Start with the statistics…
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December 2012
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Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart,... →
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What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza?
Everything.
Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if…
November 2012
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Michelle Malone - Undertow (by Live & Breathing)
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Robert Reich: Why You Shouldn't Shop at Walmart on... →
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A half century ago America’s largest private-sector employer was General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, in today’s dollars, including health and pension benefits. Today, America’s largest employer is Walmart, whose average employee earns $8.81 an…
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