Women’s Wages Can No Longer Rescue the American Family
For the past forty years American men's incomes have stagnated. The US economy has doubled in real per capita terms since 1973, but the median male wage income has fallen...
Salvatore Babones
America Is Even More Unequal than It Seems
We all know that the United States is the most unequal of the rich nations of the world. Only relatively poor countries like Malaysia and Mexico have levels of inequality...
The Romneys don’t make money; Their money makes money
In 2011, Willard M. Romney and Ann D. Romney reported an adjusted gross income of $13,696,951 via tax returns that were highly skewed - both literally and figuratively. Literally, the...
The World’s Smallest Shipwreck
Last month Mitt Romney released a somewhat redacted version of his 2011 tax returns. The Romneys reported $13,696,951 in adjusted gross income, not a cent of it earned through work...