Gobble Up Poor, Feast on Middle Class
What do wealthy Americans do after they’ve finished eating the poor? They start on the middle class, of course. So goes the ugly process of wealth and income redistribution in America.
Middle Class Squeeze
Candidates Stop Saying ‘Middle Class’
Instead of new rhetoric about the middle class, Presidential candidates should invent policies to save it.
Obama, Letterman, and the ‘I’ Word
If President Obama really wants upward mobility for poor people, then he should support downward mobility at the top. By Salvatore Babones [caption id="attachment_8944" align="alignright" width="300"] On the Late Show...
Our Grand Fortunes, Our Grand Waste
Good things trickle down from the top, cheerleaders for privilege insist, when wealth concentrates. In real life, suggests economist Robert Frank, inequality makes things worse even for its ostensible beneficiaries.