Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. May 9, 2012.
Wasn't increased productivity supposed to lower prices, liberate workers, and give us more time to enjoy our lives? A new EPI report tells us why that that promise failed.
In recent months, a blizzard of new data has laid bare the dilapidated condition of the American economy, and particularly of the once-mighty American middle class.
The two-income family was once a means for staying in the middle class. One of those incomes is rapidly disappearing as more and more husbands or wives lose a job.
America's unions have been one of the major forces in building a middle class and have fought over the past century to improve the lives of all Americans.
The American Legislative Executive Council works behind the scenes, using state-legislative stooges to implement the agenda of giant corporations and the super-rich.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. January 24, 2011.
Cuomo and Brown are attacking the notion that the public policies we choose, the public goods we provide, can create better lives -- the core of America’s middle class.
Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse. January 4, 2011.
The Working Poor Families Project has discovered that the number of working poor in the United States is higher than ever and it continues to increase at a staggering pace.
The policies that benefit a tiny fraction of Americans resulted from a long-concerted effort by the wealthy to thwart laws that might give the rest of Americans a chance.
Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. September 24, 2010.
After three decades of flat wages the middle class has exhausted all coping mechanisms. It can’t send more spouses into paid work or work more hours or borrow any more.
