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• in Politics
  Laughing Matters: Our 99% Solution For Negative Political Ads
  Something each of us can do to cleanup American politics whether we're Democrats, Independents or Republicans.
  by frogno / on Jul 23, 2012
• in Politics
  Shattering the Class Warfare Taboo
  A new Pew poll finds that most Americans are ready to talk about class conflicts.
  by jimmyzuma / on Jan 12, 2012
• in Politics
  Stocks Point to a Dying Middle Class
  The stock market tells us the middle class is dying. But we can still save it.
  by jimmyzuma / on Dec 1, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “middle class”

 

• Tips for Selecting an Online Broker

  
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  Stock trading used to be more popular to rich people who can afford to buy hundreds or even thousands of stocks, but things have changed. Today, even those from the middle class use whatever they can save from their salaries to grab on stocks that are likely to increase in value. In fact, now is an ideal time to do ...
  3 days ago

• College: A Lesson in Inequality

  
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  Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google’s new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was ...
  3 days ago

• Why China’s Riches Won’t Bring It Freedom

  
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  At Bloomberg View, Pankaj Mishra examines China’s challenge to the advance of liberal democracy and its relationship with economic growth . “ Development is the only hard truth,” Deng claimed. “If we do not develop, then we will be bullied.” Speaking of the “China Dream,” the new Chinese leader, ...
  3 days ago

• Open thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families

  
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  The following excerpt, via, Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttners new book, Debtors Prison , titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families : “Living within one’s means” is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Before the crisis, some families and nations did borrow ...
  3 days ago

• Borgman: Cannes Review

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam unleashes a cultish group of evil intruders on an upper middle class family in this Cannes competition entry. read more Read more here: EW The post Borgman: Cannes Review appeared first on Datzhott .
  4 days ago

• Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif declares victory in historic poll

  
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  The results, which need to be officially confirmed, indicated Sharif’s party has an overwhelming lead but would fall short of winning a majority of the 272 directly elected national assembly seats. See more here: Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif declares victory in historic poll
  1 week ago

• How Is Anyone Supposed to Understand This

  
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  After reading this piece by Brad DeLong, I ask you, how are normal people supposed to understand all this and plan for their retirement?
  1 week ago

• Thousands in Israel protest proposed budget

  
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  Israeli police say protesters are marching in Tel Aviv over proposed tax hikes and benefit cuts. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said about two thousand rallied Saturday night. Protesters are angry over the proposed decrees by Israels new finance minister Yair Lapid who started his job several ...
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• Behind the Scenes: President Obamas Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour - Austin, Texas

  
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  President Obama traveled to Austin, Texas, kicking off a series of Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tours focused on creating a strong and vibrant economy built on good middle class jobs. President Obama is not waiting for Congress to act, and he will continue pushing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to take action on ...
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• Why are the Rich So Rich, while Everyone Else Struggles?

  
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  Ordinary working Americans don’t seem to have as much of a chance anymore at striking it rich.  Over the past three decades, income disparity between the wealthy and middle class has exploded.  That makes it much harder for average people to pursue the American dream and nearly impossible for the poor.  Upward ...
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• Africa’s Emerging Middle Class Drives Growth, Democracy

  
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  A middle-class family in Zambia From The Globe & Mail (Canada) : "After years of headlines about Africa’s poverty, its emerging middle class is now grabbing attention as a driver of growth and democracy and an expanding pool of consumers for market-hungry retailers. Consumer demand is a motor of ...
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• Wall Street Hiring More Ex-Government Prostitutes Officials to Assure it Gets its Way

  
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  The infamous James Carville quote, “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find,” seems more applicable to official Washington than the much-maligned Paula Jones. Ben White at Politico (hat tip Paul Tioxon) provided an update on the revolving door, Wall Street edition. ...
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• Wolf Richter: When Flight Safety Gets Outsourced To China

  
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  By Wolf Richter, a San Francisco based executive, entrepreneur, start up specialist, and author, with extensive international work experience. Cross posted from Testosterone Pit . Aircraft maintenance was a highly paid blue-collar job that required education, training, manual skills, and brains. It was one of the ...
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• Social Mobility in Mexico

  
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  A girl from the “Insurgentes de la Paz” (Peace Insurgents) school hangs up her school bag near an old bus turned into her classroom in the settlement of Pueblo Nuevo, Oaxaca (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters). One of the biggest criticisms leveled at Mexico is the lack of social mobility. A new report published by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Digest 5/9 - Why We All Need The Middle Classes, Everybody Lives in Asia

  
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  Gold Is Collapsing, Not Bottoming: Swedroe 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be Abolished Germans splurge on Italian homes locals can’t afford India’s new China war No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation Gold: Who’s Selling, Whos Buying, Whos Lying Everybody Lives in Asia Only 150 of ...
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• Obama heading to Austin, with local guide Ron Kirk tagging along

  
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  … President Obama boarding Air Force One en route to Austin. (AP photo) WASHINGTON — Marine One lifted off from the White House … [ visit site to read more ]
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• Young, Middle Class & Black In South Africa

  
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  Buppies cluster in Gauteng Province (Johannesburg area) From Moneyweb (South Africa) : "In the last eight years, the black middle class has doubled from 8% to 16% of this population segment. To qualify, they must earn between R16 000 [US$1,776] and R50 000 [US$5,550] per month, have a tertiary qualification, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• President Obama’s press secretary on the middle-class jobs tour: Why visit Texas? Why not?

  
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  … White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says the president is traveling to Texas tomorrow because while there’s lots of gridlock and partisan infighting in Washington, the Lone Star State is home … [ visit site to read more ]
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• GOPster Austerity Failing Utterly!

  
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   Very Revealing Graph Kindly Forwarded by Josh Dow The letter to the editor posted below from the May 5, 2013 Walworth County Sunday, written by Ron Shrader was submitted by Mary Gilding for inclusion in the BAP Blog. Combined with the above chart and the sudden and utter rejection of the failed ...
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• 29 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education In America Is A Giant Money Making Scam

  
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  by Michael College education in the United States has become a cruel joke.  We endlessly push our high school kids to invest tens of thousands of dollars and at least four years of their lives to get a college education because they won’t have any sort of a “future” without it.  So they sign up for decades ...
  2 weeks ago

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