The Lost Decade
The economy looks bad with double-digit unemployment, but there’s a big secret big corporations don’t want you to know: even before the economic collapse last year the number of jobs in our economy was low. In fact, we have about the same number of available, private sector, jobs now as we did ten years ago – despite the fact that our population has grown by about 9%. Check out more about where our economy stands compared to ten years ago in this recent article.
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Playing Chicken with Our Economic Recovery
DECEMBER 20th, 2011 | Congress stands at the crossroads of yet another Federal shutdown, the third this year. If we were waiting for a clear indication that we need to more Representatives in Washington who will put working families and the middle class first, this is it. Partisan bickering keeps the real leaders on both sides of the aisle, who are ready to fight for the 99% of us who work for a living, doing their jobs.
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Breaking Down Wealth Inequality
NOVEMBER 30th, 2011 | Occupy Wall Street has rippled across the country leaving a wake of activism and protest in nearly every state and wide-scale demonstrations teeming in over 20 major North American cities. The message is clear: we are the 99%. We work the jobs, we pay the bills and we’re tired of the 1% keeping all of the profits.
