Hard Times USA

Building a Smarter, Stronger Movement in the Face of Opposition

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / AlterNet

We need to develop a mass movement committed to ending the rule of money and building power in the people.

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Why Elites Want to Mask the Suffering of Poor Whites

By Chauncey DeVega / Daily Kos

The “Free Market” Takes Its Pound Of Flesh, But Never From The Failed CEO

By Jonathan Tasini / Working Life

Last Week in Poverty: Food Policy, EITC Expansion and Financial Security for All

By Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

6 Ways Rabid Republicans Are Declaring War On America

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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More Evidence That America's Middle Class Is Sliding Toward the Third World

6 Facts About Hunger That Demonstrate the Shameful Excesses of American Capitalism

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5 Reasons Public Employees Make Such Tempting Political Targets

Ramsin Canon / AlterNet

Recession Forever? 10 Reasons American Workers Are Screwed

Moira Herbst / The Guardian

Why the GOP Should Stop Blaming Immigrants for High Unemployment

Jessica Desvarieux / The Real News Network

“Dizzy and Sick”: McDonald’s Workers Strike After Enduring 110-Degree Heat

Josh Eidelson / Salon

Detroit's Collapse Reveals the Awful Dystopia that the United States Is Becoming

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Last Week in Poverty: Confronting Congressional Hunger Games

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

Miami May Just Throw Homeless People in Jail

Scott Keyes / Think Progress

The Maximum Wage: Coming Soon To A CEO Near You?

Mark Engler / The New Internationalist

The 5 Biggest Obscenities of Capitalism Today

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Absurd: Billionaire Koch Brother Claims Eliminating Minimum Wage Would Help the Poor

Rod Bastanmehr / AlterNet

CEO Pay Went Up 16% Last Year to $15 million -- How Much Did Your Pay Go Up?

Helaine Olen / The Guardian

Las Vegas Suburb Accused of Plotting to Seize 5,000 Homes with Eminent Domain to Flip Them for a Profit

Megan Gallegos / Courthouse News

The State of Dissent in America: Flex Your Rights

Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers / Truthout

Last Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

More Evidence That America's Middle Class Is Sliding Toward the Third World

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Emergency Manager Wants to Sell Off City's Precious Art, While Banks Get Fatter

Toby Barlow / The Weeklings

Senate Does Nothing as Student Loan Rates Set to Double

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Brazilians Are Taking to the Streets to Protest Their Country's Injustice and Inequality—Why Aren't We?

Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

Last Week in Poverty: The Older Americans Act and U.S. Seniors

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

6 Facts About Hunger That Demonstrate the Shameful Excesses of American Capitalism

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind

George Packer / The Guardian

The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA

Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

What Congress and the Media Are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

One in Three Americans is Poor — And Getting Little Relief

Jeanette Wicks-Lim / Dollars and Sense

Why America & China's Future Plans Are Totally Nuts

James Howard Kunstler / Kunstler.com

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