Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty

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By HOPE YEN (AP) – 2 hours ago WASHINGTON — The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calcula...

Implications of the Census Bureau’s Poverty Report

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by Stan Duncan... The Census Bureau’s annual poverty statistics came out last week and the numbers were ugly. Not only were they (1) uglier ...

The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later

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by Robert Reich Robert Reich is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a former U.S. Secretary of Labor. Week...

Fair Trade: The story

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A fine video by Transfair about the meaning of "Fair Trade."

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US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, and Growing Numbers of Uninsured Wall Street is improving but Main Street is wor...

More on "Who Knew" About the Coming Crash

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Financial Regulators Held Secret Meeting With Hedge Fund Short Sellers In 2007 John Carney|Aug. 26, 2009, 8:40 AM| http://www.businessinside...

Teddy's Letters

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Back in the eighties I led a number of delegations to Central America. Usually they were for US church groups. But some were for a human rig...

The Public Option's Last Stand, and the Public's

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Robert Reich Reprinted from his Blog, Aug 16, 2009 I would have preferred a single payer system like Medicare, but became convinced earlier ...

Who Knew?

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Stan G. Duncan... Here's a joke that economists used to tell at conventions, that is, until 2008 when it stopped being funny: Once u...

The Birthers and Jim Crow 2.0

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By: Kai Wright From TheRoot.com The manufactured anger driving the birthers and health care town halls is the same wh...