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I never thought much about class in America until I read White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C Williams. Reading this book was quite a revelation to me. It turns out that class is at the center of many of the political problems that are tearing America up right now. …
Elizabeth Warren is one of the best describers of what has happened to the middle class in America and all over the western world. She has again and again told her story of growing up in an average middle class home in the 1950’s and then watching the bottom fall out when her father had …
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Branko Milanovic is a Serbian-American economist who specializes in the problems of inequality. According to Wikipedia, "Milanovic is currently a visiting Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He was formerly the lead economist in the World Bank's research department, visiting professor at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. Between 2003 and 2005 he was senior associate …
The automation and robotization of American industry has been going on for a long time now. It is part of the reason, along with the offshoring of jobs, that industrial jobs which so many working families used to depend on are more and more difficult to find in America. Of course the robots are descending …
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One of the major problems in the world right now is inequality. The .1% and the 1% and the top 10% now control most of the worlds wealth. Unbelievable as it may seem, the world's eight richest people now have the same wealth as the poorest 50%. In a January 15, 2017 edition The Guardian …
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