America is experiencing not only income inequality, but also wealth inequality, which isn’t surprising. What’s shocking is how far it has gone. The post-World War 2 gains made by the middle class have been completely eradicated, and U.S. wealth distribution is now back at 1940s levels,[...]
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October 22nd, 2014 - 3:56 pm § in America
It’s Really Happening: America’s Middle Class Is Vanishing
October 15th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in China
SLIPPERY SLOPE: Middle class China turns to private health insurance
By Linda Pressly Reporter, BBC News 18 July 2011 excerpts Over half of all healthcare in China is paid for by the consumers themselves Healthcare – and how you pay for it – is one of life’s big worries. In China few people have private health insurance but the market is growing. Po[...]
January 3rd, 1942 - 11:05 pm § in Misc.
The Middle Class Tags!
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December 27th, 2017 - 8:25 am § in Politics
GOP Rep calls middle-class tax cuts “socialism”
Robert Pittenger, a multimillionaire businessman, barely won a “safe” GOP seat in North Carolina in 2012, and since then has been one of the most dogmatic, closed-minded, radically rightwing — and racist — members of Congress. If you have a pre-existing condition, he says you[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 1:17 am § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jews, News Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans
How the Middle East could cost Harris the election
Grossly simplified, the Middle East conflict boils down to two peoples living in the same space. As you know, the latest stage of the conflict began Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,100 people, and took about 250 hostages. Israel responded with a m[...]
May 11th, 2021 - 5:55 pm § in Israel/Palestine
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May 11th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine
Middle East: “The open wound of an unresolved conflict”
Sirens wailing, rockets falling; jets screaming, bombs falling; explosions, many explosions; and death, many are dead. It’s an old, familiar story. BBC‘s Middle East correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, writes: “The fundamental reason for the renewed violence does not change. It is the ope[...]
How clueless Democrats lost the white working class to Trump
An essay by Joan C. Williams, a professor at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, published in Harvard Business Review in November 2016 (and cited in the January 19, 2021, issue of Barron’s magazine), became one of the most widely read articles in HBR’s history. Read it here. The wh[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 5:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Middlebury College revokes Giuliani’s honorary degree
Middlebury College of Vermont revoked an honorary degree it gave Rudy Giuliani in 2005, The Hill reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2020. Read story here and the college’s statement here. On Monday, the college’s president, Laurie Patton, accused the Giuliani of “fomenting the violent uprisi[...]
November 20th, 2020 - 4:58 pm § in Misc.
Unseen Tolkien “Middle Earth” writings to be published
LOTR fans “are in for an unexpected treat,” NBC News says. “Previously unseen collections of writings from the author will be published next year and shed new light on works including ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Silmarillion’ and ‘Unfinished Tales,&#[...]