Meanwhile the Workers' Payroll Tax Has Doubled
By Paul Buchheit
Ayn Rand s novel ''Atlas Shrugged'' fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and ''stop the motor'' by withdrawing themselves from the system of production.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34992.htm
Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations
By Ralph Nader
Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they are in trouble.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34979.htm
Postcard From the End Of America: Scranton
By Linh Dinh
In our media, working class people are endlessly caricatured as ignorant and racist buffoons, so they only have themselves to blame if they are struggling.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34980.htm
10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, Agonizing Death Of The American Worker
The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species. The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States.
http://is.gd/LN3WbP
The Empire s Next Effort to Extract Your Wealth
Since before the tech bust, we've been suggesting that while Americans ''think'' they are getting richer... they are actually heading in the other direction. They are getting poorer.
http://is.gd/5SN27w
Poor lose housing help due to federal budget cuts
Thousands of the poorest residents of Massachusetts are losing housing assistance because of automatic federal budget cuts that took effect in March.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/05/26/poor-lose-housing-help-due-federal-budget-cuts/G1pWSsqYzl1n6FSN6WxSdP/story.html
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America s Killer Jobs
Julie Gutman Dickinson, Firedoglake: Every year, thousands of American workers die on the job, and millions are injured due to lax worker safety laws and weak enforcement of those that do exist. We are letting men and women die simply by failing to afford them basic protections.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16459-americas-killer-jobs
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Public broadcasting institutions now rely more and more on corporate and billionaire cash to operate, which is probably why PBS and NPR now filter what they play on their airwaves: so that they don't anger their wealthy backers.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16538-the-corporate-dictatorship-of-pbs-and-npr
The Supreme Court Empowers Employers to Lock Out Workers
Ann C. Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout: This seventh article in the Judicial Amendment Project series on the history of the National Labor Relations Act describes how the Supreme Court defied the expressed purposes of the NLRA by empowering employer lockouts that sap worker solidarity and enhance employer power.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16531-the-supreme-court-empowers-employers-to-lock-out-workers
Blood Ties, Nepotism and Democracy
The Institute of Art and Ideas, Truthout: In our supposedly meritocratic society, is inheritance of wealth and position an inequity that should be eradicated?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16548-blood-ties-nepotism-and-democracy
A Generation Out of Luck
Gary Lapon, Socialist Worker: The class of 2013 will face a jobs and career crisis when they graduate. Gary Lapon examines the different dimensions of the crisis, and why it's taking place.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16587-a-generation-out-of-luck
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Tax-Avoiding Corporations Siphoning Billions from World s Poorest
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/23-3
More Evidence That US Middle Class is Sliding Toward the Third World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/01-1
How Capitalism s Great Relocation Pauperized America s 'Middle Class'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/09-9
Is There Hope for The Middle Class?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/07/10-0
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