“Companies steal close to 10 billion dollars annually in unpaid overtime.”
“It takes an emotional toll, it takes a mental toll, it takes a physical toll.”
“College students are facing a roughly $20 billion increase in the cost of their federal loans.”
“When you hear a politician promising to exempt the retired and near retired from changes to Social Security, while offering to make it more ‘secure’ for future generations, you now know the game plan.”
“People are talking about Niagara Falls as a living destination, and obviously are interested in what we are doing.”
“Whoever says meritocracy says oligarchy.”
“Read the first 38 chapters of the book of Job if you would like a critique of this kind of thinking.”
“That tension between these two very different views of what it means to be ‘elite’ has inflected our history for over 400 years.”
“Libertarians, please study harder for the next test.”
“Here are 8 ways our corporations, politicians and courts are trying to recreate the Gilded Age.”
“City privatizes its beach lifeguarding. The company does what companies do.”
“The easiest and simplest way for the government to create jobs is simply for the government to stop firing people.”
“Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow the very wealthy to skirt tax laws, and investigating just how much of Romney’s fortune (with $30 million in Bain Capital funds in the Cayman Islands alone?) looks pretty strange for a presidential candidate.”
“President Obama is betting on America and American workers, and Mitt Romney is betting his resources in the Cayman Islands, in Bermuda, in Switzerland and God only knows where else he is putting his resources.”
“Unlike in past elections, in which even the most conservative Republicans argued that we should ‘ensure that all Americans would have affordable, quality, private health coverage,’ voters this year will choose between one party that supports universal health care and one that doesn’t, with health insurance for as many as 50 million voters hanging in the balance.”
“The prophets leave the comfort and familiarity of home and hearth and even their own country to report and point and scream and jump up and down and shock the kings and queens with discomforting stories.”
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