Goldman Sachs’ Merry-Go-Round of Metal
We are living in a golden age of market manipulation. Never have so few been able to control so much in such an opaque system.
Tag: demos
Does the White Working Class Hate Welfare for the Poor?
Does the White Working Class Hate Welfare for the Poor?
in the $30k-$75k range, you have 57% of GOP voters (non-voters are generally more progressive still) who think the government’s support for poor people is the right amount or not enough.
There is a gap between what GOP voters want, and what they vote for.
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White High School Dropouts Have More Wealth Than Black And Hispanic College Graduates | Demos
Two Theories of Poverty
Poverty replicates itself in very predictable structural ways.
Not a perfect article but worth a read. I’ve never seen any reason to support the pull-your-pants up view of poverty being a defect in individuals. If it were true the great depression would have been the great slack where a fifth of the nation decided to become lazy and live off free soup.
Politics by Subpoena: How Darrell Issa Abuses His Power, and Why
Politics by Subpoena: How Darrell Issa Abuses His Power, and Why
Issa has been engaged in nonstop investigations since taking power after the 2010 election, drilling into everything from the Fast and Furious operation to Benghazi to Solyndra to Freddie and Fannie to the alleged politicization of the IRS to the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov. He’s talked of finding “Obama’s Watergate,” but that’s never happened and his investigations come up empty handed again and again.
What is so frustrating is that rather than investigate clear and admitted lies by NSA and CIA spokespeople, Issa is spending time and tax payer money on nonsense issues he imagines will look good on fox news.