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The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent Of Income Gains In 2010
Business  (tags: americans, law, politics, consumers, corporate, Entrepreneurs, ethics, government, investing, investors, labor, money )

Robert
- 45 days ago - thinkprogress.org
"The top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery."...The bottom 90% of Americans lost $127, the bottom 99% of Americans gained $80,
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Is There A Stealth Tax Increase For Working-Class People In The Republican Budget?
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, cover-up, debt, dishonesty, economy, finance, government, greenbuilding, investing, investments, labor, law, lies, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 46 days ago - ourfuture.org
A little-noticed report from the Department of Labor last month contained the unsettling revelation that 10.5 million Americans, more than 7 percent of the labor force, is classified as "working poor." These are people who are working at least 27 weeks->
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Keith Olbermann's Firing at Current TV Could Be His Ruin or His Salvation
Business  (tags: Al Gore, americans, business, consumers, Keith Olbermann, investing, labor, marketing, news, society )

Kit
- 56 days ago - thedailybeast.com
Keith Olbermann will celebrate unemployment by going on David Letterman on Tuesday night. Will it kick off a successful Glenn Beck-style postnetwork TV career, or be his first step toward obscurity? Wait and See!
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REPORT: As Norway Funds Rainforest Conservation, Its Pension Fund Invests in Companies Driving Deforestation
Business  (tags: business, society, environment, deforestation, ethics, dishonesty, investing, investments, politics, world, news, money, corruption )

Cal
- 57 days ago - news.mongabay.com
At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its pension fund in dozens of companies linked to deforestation
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Loan Forgiveness Good for the Economy, and Maybe Fannie and Freddie Mac Too
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corporate, economy, ethics, finance, investing, investments, marketing, money, news, politics, society )

Kit
- 62 days ago - truth-out.org
New analyses by mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have added an explosive new dimension to one of the most politically charged debates about the housing crisis: Whether to reduce the amount of money beleaguered homeowners owe on their mortgages
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How to Become Financially Secure: Take Risks or Play It Safe?
Business  (tags: Finance, Investing, saving )

Olivia
- 74 days ago - wwwthreads.org
There is no easy solution to being financially secure, it depends mostly on the path you take to get there. Here are a few offbeat (and normal) paths that some people take to get there.
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Winds of Fortune Sweep West Texas
Business  (tags: environment, energy, green, nature, society, interesting, SustainableDevelopment, oil, investing, investments, greenbuilding, corporate, government )

Robert
- 79 days ago - chron.com
BP and other energy companies are funneling millions into building and operating wind farms in West Texas, helping to transform oil country into one of the nation's leading hubs for green energy production.
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What $100 Million Could Do for Out of Work, Underpaid Teachers
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, dishonesty, economy, education, finance, government, investing, labor, money, politics, society, TEACHERS )

Kit
- 105 days ago - truth-out.org
Instead of spending the money to train new teachers, we could focus on putting laid off teachers back to work and keeping them there by paying them better.
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We Are The Many - Makana   video
Business  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, dishonesty, culture, education, children, freedoms, government, goodnews, GoodNews, humans, politics, religion, sadness, society, world, violence, usa, tv, abuse, americans, dishonesty, bush, bushadministration, candidates, ch )

Michael
- 108 days ago - youtube.com
No doubt MTV and other corporatist American channels won't touch this video with a light-year long pole. Many people here in amayricka, particularly the middle-aged and elderly, have been made so comfortably numb, it may take a total collapse.
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Labor: The New Gold Standard
Business  (tags: americans, activists, americans, corruption, economy, government, business, consumers, corporate, economy, finance, government, investments, investing, labor, politics, society )

Michael
- 141 days ago - opednews.com
Gold is still the most admired store of value, is not capable of transacting the needs of seven billion humans. Total world supply is a sixty-foot cube. Sooner or later, as soaring populations compete for declining farmland, gold would become worthless.
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Understanding the Financial Crisis ~ Very Well Explanation!   video
Business  (tags: debt, finance, investing, investments, money, economy, business, society )

Henriette
- 141 days ago - youtube.com
To the point video, informative, simple, and should help bring a lot of people up to speed on how the economy crashed. Well worth to view.
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"There Will Be Violence, Mark My Words" By Michael Thomas, Newsweek
Business  (tags: americans, violence, society, law, government, dishonesty, money, investments, investing, economy )

Robert
- 149 days ago - readersupportednews.org
even financial penalties, will be the least of the Street's tribulations. There will be prosecutions and show trials. There will be violence, mark my words. Houses burnt, property defaced. I just hope that this time the mob target
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How Anticorporate Sentiment Might Just Have Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Business  (tags: business, corporate, AT::::&T::, corporate power, activism, society, politics, news, investing, government, technology, usa, money )

Cal
- 170 days ago - alternet.org
AT&T withdrew its application from the FCC to take over T-Mobile. So is the merger dead? And if so, who killed it?
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A Clean Energy Resource Too Large to Be Ignored -- Geothermal Power Gains Steam
Business  (tags: energy, geothermal power, politics, news, money, investments, investing, environment, greenbuilding, government )

Cal
- 179 days ago - enn.com
Globally, activity in the geothermal power sector recovered somewhat in 2010 following a weak 2009, as overall investment increased, according to NRG Expert's 2011 Geothermal Report. A
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Vote on the Worst of the 1%
Business  (tags: abuse, business, corporate, corruption, debt, dishonesty, economy, environment, ethics, foreclosures, government, investing, labor, lies, money, politics, wal-mart )

Kathy
- 188 days ago - whoarethe1percent.com
Who's using their wealth to damage our economy and democracy? You tell us. Check out our nominees and vote to choose the worst among them. Then we'll make a series of videos exposing the ones you pick. Go ahead and vote. Start to take your democracy back.
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