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Bernie Sanders: Plain-speaking on the death of the middle class

May 6, 2015 Renee Shur 2016 Election, Congress, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, People, Politics, Senate Leave a comment

Bernie Sanders–now a declared candidate for President–is not new to the business of truth-telling. The following article, originally published here in 2013, chronicles one

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Clinton remembers poor as well as middle class

October 5, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Democrats, Employment, Good government, Health care, Human Rights, Politics, Poverty, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The official poverty rate for the United States in 2010 was 15.1 percent. There were 46.2 million individuals who were poor, defined as a

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Is concern about the diminishing middle class causing us to forget the poor?

November 15, 2011 Arthur Lieber Economy, Financial reform, History, Obama, Poverty 3 comments

Out of sight, out of mind. That’s been a major problem for poor people in the United States. When John F. Kennedy was a

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Middle class poverty and the job-scarce American economy

March 12, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment 2 comments

Peter S. Goodman’s recent article in the New York Times, “The New Poor: Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs,” paints a bleak picture

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Elizabeth Warren on the coming collapse of the middle class

March 2, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy 3 comments

Elizabeth Warren has been predicting the collapse of the middle class for years and unfortunately, her predictions are coming true. In this hour-long lecture,

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