GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek talks to John Williams of Shadowstats http://www.shadowstats.com/ and Peter G. Eliades, Editor and Publisher, Stockmarket Cycles http://www.stockmarketcycles.com/...
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Under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Opens the Door to Privatizing Half its Public …
Under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Opens the Door to Privatizing Half its Public ...
December 1998 demolition of S. Lake Park Avenue & 39th Street (Photo: Christopher Morris/flickr CC 2.0/Edited from original). Chicago, long a pioneer of privatization, is poised to embark on a sweeping experiment with the city's public-housing stock.
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The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
In addition, most recipients of public assistance must now work in order to qualify. Bill Clinton's welfare reform of 1996 pushed the poor off welfare and into work. Meanwhile, the Earned Income Tax Credit, a wage subsidy, has emerged as the nation's ...
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Latest Plutocracy News
Plutocracy the First Time Around
What came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the movement for the eight-hour day, elicited what one historian has called “a strange enthusiasm.” The normal trade union strike is a finite event joining two parties contesting over limited, if sometimes ...
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Onward, Toward Plutocracy
At its national bargaining convention, now taking place in Detroit, UAW president Dennis Williams announced that he is opposed not only to a "three-tier" wage format (rumored to be on GM's and Ford's agendas and aimed at members engaged in the ...
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5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy
Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security state. Certainly, something out of the ordinary is underway ...
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Latest Government Statistics News
The Problem With Funding Government Through Fines
Statistics from nearby municipalities suggest the problem isn't limited to Ferguson, and may even be worse elsewhere in Missouri. If Ferguson illustrated the pitfalls of turning law enforcement into a collection agency, then Nevada shows the bind ...
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Kremlin says Russians are drinking less and exercising more. Are they?
Experts warn that while Russians do appear to be living healthier lives now, the improvement shown in figures gathered by Rosstat, the official statistics agency, are likely an effort to demonstrate that President Vladimir Putin is fulfilling three ...
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Bad bridges: Federal data shows US infrastructure crumbling
More than 61,000 bridges throughout the United States are “structurally deficient” and in need of serious repair, a national association of builders has warned, citing government statistics. New analysis of 2014 bridge database information recently ...
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