The creeping expansion of free market tendencies always comes up against the forces of individuals fighting for their own freedoms and keeping the economic system in check.
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Middle-Class Blacks and Whites Have Vastly Different Fortunes
If you average all income groups together, black median wealth is less than 1/3rd of white median wealth.
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Ten Reasons Fast Food Workers Deserve A Raise
Fast food workers in thirty-five cities are on strike today. Here’s why we’re all tied to their success and why they’ll eventually succeed.
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Challenging the Myths of the Libertarian Right
A new initiative to sharpen the opposition to their ideas.
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The High Probability of Being Poor
The number of Americans that struggle with joblessness and poverty throughout their lifetime is still exceedingly high.
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Stop Worrying about Food Stamp “Fraud”
Even if it exists, it doesn’t matter.
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Ezra Klein’s Blind Spot
He argues that the poor are more influential in Washington than ever. That’s just not true.
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False Concerns for the Poor
The debate over fast food strikes brings out the worst kind of hateful trashing of the working poor at Fox News.
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How Vast Error-Prone Databases Are Trashing Our Economic Lives
A new report from The New York Times shows that over a million low-income Americans have been denied a bank account.
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In the Dark About Voting Rights
My experience trying to register to vote at a public assistance agency in Oklahoma.