21,000 Affluent People Paid no income taxes last year and didn’t create a single job for anybody

The rich are making off like bandits because they are. The affluent have purchased enough legislation to ensure a constant redistribution of income from the 99 percent to themselves, they’ve bought tax breaks from legislators, free trade income redistribution treaties, income redistribution privatized government services, income redistribution deregulation, and you get the picture. But here’s [...]

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Free Trade Agreements Redistributing Income and Wealth from the 99 to the One Percent

(Reuters) – “The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time fell only slightly last week, suggesting that job growth in April will not improve much after March’s disappointing performance.” The economy is weak because demand is weak and that is due to the massive redistribution of income and wealth the federal government [...]

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Why Are Teacher Cut Backs Coming? Blame Free Trade Agreements

The Oregonian writer Steve Duin wrote a nice piece about teacher cutbacks at Franklin High School coming in the next few months. He only told the effects, and I asked him to write about what has caused these cutbacks. Below is a link to his well written column, and below that is my response. At [...]

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Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke warns jobs recovery may be ‘out of sync’ with economic picture. But What Is He Not Saying?

Bernanke said he believed the jobs problem (lack of job creation) in the USA is a “cyclical” rather than a “structural” problem. What is he really saying? It’s simple. The redistribution of income and wealth from the 99 percent to the one percent is not part of the problem. Of course, he’s lying. It doesn’t [...]

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The Demographics of the Jobs Recovery

Hispanics and Asians are leading the pack in terms of job recovery. Whites and African-Americans lag behind. Here’s why. click here for the full story

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Which Anti-American Corporations are Shipping Jobs Overseas?

Which American companies are shipping jobs overseas? Look at the video below. It gives you a ton of answers. However, it should be pointed out that the jobs aren’t shipped out in search of the lowest wages, although that’s typically what happens. But that’s not the motivation for shipping or creating jobs overseas. Instead, US [...]

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Will Some Manufacturing Jobs Trickle Back to the United States?

(Reuters) – Big manufacturers moved their production out of the country too quickly over the past decades and now see a competitive advantage in building up their footprints back home, top executives said on Monday. click here for the complete story

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Young Adults Are Being Left Behind in The New (Lesser) Economy

Young people are stuck in the unemployment line at the worst rate since World War II. The old folks are hanging on to their jobs because retirement benefits suck for a lot more citizens today than a decade or more ago. New jobs are being created at better rate than the lost decade of George [...]

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Give Credit to Obama: Job growth surges in January

(Reuters) -”The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, providing some measure of comfort for President Barack Obama who faces re-election in November.” However, it should be pointed out this number is anemic compared to the Reagan [...]

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The most likely degrees with which to get a job

Do you want a job? One with prestige and maybe comes with enough money and benefits to provide a middle class living? Well click on the list below for the best four year degrees with which to get a job. Click here for the five most versatile four year degrees

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