The Gender Pay Gap

June 17th, 2012

Via The Center for American Progress

"In 2010 the median full-time working man took home $47,715 in earnings, while the median full-time working woman made only $36,931—77.4 percent of that amount, or $10,784 less."

Here's what an American woman could do with that money.

Just A Reminder

May 18th, 2012

Social Darwinism Explained

April 21st, 2012

Meet Nick Hanauer

Feb 12th, 2012

Meet Nick Hanauer. Self-made multi-millionaire, venture capitalist and member of the so-called 1%, he recently spoke with Yahoo! Finance commentator Henry Blodget and more than a few folks are sitting up to take notice:

"We are systematically destroying our customer base in this country by undercutting the middle class... If it was true that the rich and business were job creators, we'd be drowning in jobs today."

Mitt Watch - Everything But The Monocle

Jan 30th, 2012
by F. Grey Parker

It's still, and for the umpteenth time, not the fact that Mitt Romney is among the richest people in the world that bothers large swaths of the American electorate.

What concerns them is how he got the money, why he fails to see that his tax rate is unfair and whether or not he actually possesses any empathy for the people who, to paraphrase Capra's George Bailey, "do most of the working and living and dying" in this country.