Zephyr Teachout, The Nation. May 23, 2008. Apparently, in the United States, we don't have an upper class; we have elites -- a complimentary term that obscures true differences in opportunity.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 9, 2008. Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. April 7, 2008. If Obama convinces white working-class voters that he cares about their economic plight, he will become the 44th President of the United States.
Peter Dreier, The American Prospect. April 3, 2008. Contrary to class stereotypes, wealthy whites are more likely than working-class whites to use the race card in the voting booth.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 1, 2008. To have a truly productive conversation about race we must address the wealth disparities that perpetuate racial inequality.
Paul Harris, The Observer UK. April 1, 2008. Despite the rise of a black middle class and Obama's run for president, the racial divide still exists -- especially for the urban underclass.
Rebecca Solnit, Orion Magazine. March 20, 2008. Answering that requires digging into American race and class wars, and into the broad crises of environmentalism.
Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet. January 18, 2008. Gregory Clark's book A Farewell to Alms suggests that race- and class-based inequality is inherent -- perhaps even deserved.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Election 2008. January 11, 2008. On the Democratic side, Edwards class-based campaign has pushed candidates like Clinton and Obama to lately vent more populist themes
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. August 31, 2007. This year's Executive Excess 2007 report found that "top executives averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, which is 364 times the pay of the average American worker."
Brydie Ragan, YES! Magazine. July 25, 2007. The public generally believes that poor lifestyle choices, faulty genes and infectious agents are the major factors that give rise to illness. Here's the rest of the story.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation. June 13, 2007. A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass. A great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor.
Rina Palta, AlterNet. October 10, 2006. Barbara Ehrenreich's new organization seeks better health care, insurance and debt relief for unemployed and underemployed professionals.
