Economy

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By Stewart Lansley / Los Angeles Review of Books

Income inequality is now as high as it's been since the Great Depression, and the middle class is nearly extinct.

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The Astonishing Collapse of Black and Latino Household Wealth

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Why Democrats Can't Be Trusted to Control Wall Street

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IRS, DOJ, SEC: Three-Letter Abbreviations For ‘Federal Bully’

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Everything You Heard About the Deficit Falling Is Wrong

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Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers

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Why Apple is a Sociopathic Company

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How to Build a New Labor Movement, One Step at a Time

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How America's Retirement Crisis Is Crushing the Hopes of a Generation of Young People

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The Internet Is Slaying the Middle Class

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Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

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