Economy

What It's Going to Take to Claw Back Middle Class Wealth from the 1%

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

When unions decline, inequality soars and we all lose.

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Memo to Obama: The 99% Needs a Recovery

By Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post

Offshore Tax Havens Robbed States of Nearly $40 Billion in 2011

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Credit Ratings Agencies Are Pimps of Wall Street: It's Time to Ban Them!

By Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

14 Reasons to Repeal the Sequester Now

By Richard (RJ) Eskow / Blog for Our Future

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Cornel West Warns of Rising Authoritarianism: “You Can Get Killed Out Here Trying to Tell the Truth!”

WATCH: Stewart Ridicules Obama for Apparent Cluelessness on Administration's Latest Scandals

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Economy

The Ugly Truth About America's Housing "Recovery" -- It's Wall St. Buying Homes to Rent Back to Their Former Owners

Shabnam Bashiri / AlterNet

Oscar-Nominated 'Amour' Raises Red Flags on Age, Illness and Poverty

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Obsolete Humans? Why Elites Want You to Fear the Robot

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Paul Krugman Destroys the GOP’s Talking Points on Government Jobs

Jeff Spross / Think Progress

A Ground-Eye View of the 'Valley of Deportation'

Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix / New America Media

The Koch Brothers Donated Big Bucks to the Corporate Front-Group ALEC and the Climate-Change-Denying Heartland Institute

Jillian Rayfield / Salon.com

Hysteria Over the Deficit Has Ground the Recovery to a Halt

Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

4 Ways the Super Bowl Sucks For New Orleanians

Matt Reichel / AlterNet

4 Ways the Austerity Obsession in Washington Could Cost You Your Job

Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future

Libertarian Developer's Ayn Rand Fantasy Is Detroit's Latest Nightmare

Rick Perlstein / The Nation

Austerity Is Dead: Can Someone Please Tell Paul Ryan and His Deluded GOP Cohorts?

Pat Garofalo / AlterNet

Economy Shrinks -- Here's Why It's Not Bad News ...

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research

Do You Ignore Homeless People?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Timothy Geithner Saved Wall Street, Not the Economy

Dean Baker / AlterNet

America Is Turning Into One Big Prison for People in Debt

Steve Fraser / TomDispatch

One-Percent Justice: The Right's War on Labor and Consumers Takes an Ugly Turn

Harold Meyerson / The American Prospect

Outrageous: Treasury Dept. OK'd Million Dollar Raises for Bailed-Out Wall St Firms

Alex Kane / AlterNet

New Activists Fight for the Life of the American Worker

Michael Paarlberg / Comment Is Free

Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How America's Outrageous Income Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

Phillip Longman / The Washington Monthly

Paul Ryan Wants Spending Cuts That He Said Would "Devastate" the American Economy

Igor Volsky / Think Progress

Old, Female and Homeless

Rose Aguilar / Economic Hardship Reporting Project

FreedomWorks Putting Its War Chest to Work for ALEC’s Union-Busting Agenda in the States

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

'Foodopoly:' Exposing the Handful of Corporations That Control Our Food System From Seed to Dinner Plate

Wenonah Hauter / The New Press

Obama's Failure to Punish Banks Should Be Causing Serious Social Unrest

Glenn Greenwald / The Guardian

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