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Nordic countries combine strong government and individual freedom
In the United States, over the past decades, we have experienced growing income inequality and the undermining of our once stable middle class. Because
Bill Moyers is back from retirement with a new TV show: Moyers & Company
After 20 months of retirement, Bill Moyers, now 77, will return to PBS with a new show called “Moyers & Company.” It will premiere
Occupy the Moment: A Mindful Path to a New Economy
The 99%, the catch phrase of the Occupy Movement, is shorthand for confronting and condemning the behavior of the greedy 1% who destroyed the
Occupy Wall Street redefines the American dream
Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and
School’s in! What’s your teacher’s salary?
For kids, a typical school day is about six to eight hours. Not so for teachers, whose work load includes additional hours for grading
Debt-ceiling debacle: 21st century Titanic
Ignoring warnings of danger ahead. Steaming at full speed toward disaster. That was the tragedy of the Titanic and its rendezvous with a mass
Where are the manufacturing jobs in America? Try our prisons
There are currently 14.9 million unemployed Americans. Now imagine if there were a cache of jobs out there, unskilled jobs that anyone needing work
MO Prop A: If it passes, who wins, who loses?
In Missouri the battle over the November ballot initiative, Proposition A, is hot. There is a lot of confusion over what Prop A is
The decline and fall of American economic values, in pictures
Economist Robert Reich knows how to tell a story. His blog postings, op-eds and tv commentaries never fail to be straightforward and to