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applegrove

(133,142 posts) Sat Sep 20, 2014, 10:09 PM Sep 2014

America Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase Inequality

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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase Inequality

Inequality: The Choices We've Made Yes Magazine

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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose: A Timeline of Choices We've Made to Increase Inequality (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2014 OP

K/R (nt) NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1

I love Yes magazine. littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #2

Great post. IrishAyes Sep 2014 #3

And check out the Yes! Magazine website. Always good stuff there. freshwest Sep 2014 #6

Reaganomics worked in the 80's and still working, never did trickle down, stuck and we need to Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #4

I can immediately spot two huge omissions Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #5

Adding link to Yes Magazine, full article. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #7

I don't know why the link didn't render for me. Thanks. applegrove Sep 2014 #8

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. K/R (nt)

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 10:12 PM

Sep 2014

littlemissmartypants

(34,399 posts)

2. I love Yes magazine.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 10:21 PM

Sep 2014

Thanks for posting, applegrove.

~ littlemissmartypants 🙆

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)

3. Great post.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 10:35 PM

Sep 2014

I saw that on Bill Moyers' page. Very important.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

6. And check out the Yes! Magazine website. Always good stuff there.

Reply to IrishAyes (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 01:06 AM

Sep 2014

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-end-of-poverty/inequality-the-choices-we-ve-made

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

4. Reaganomics worked in the 80's and still working, never did trickle down, stuck and we need to

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 11:38 PM

Sep 2014

Return to union jobs, establish pensions for workers and better pay.

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)

5. I can immediately spot two huge omissions

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 11:39 PM

Sep 2014

1971 - Nixon closes the gold window, untethering the currency from any objective standard, a necessary requirement for the future bubble-blowing that wrecked the middle class;

1999 - Graham-Leach-Bliley Act repeals Glass-Steagall, taking out the last barrier to infinite banking leverage, which put us in a state of constant, massive monetary abuse - from this point forward incomes have steadily dropped in real terms while GDP has allegedly risen.

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

7. Adding link to Yes Magazine, full article.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 10:04 AM

Sep 2014

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-end-of-poverty/inequality-the-choices-we-ve-made

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applegrove

(133,142 posts)

8. I don't know why the link didn't render for me. Thanks.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 02:07 PM

Sep 2014

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