economics
Paul Ryan Releases New Fraudulent Budget with new Fraudulent Numbers
She’s no Sam Seder but this lady is pretty awesome. : )
MUST WATCH: Wealth Inequality in America, perception vs reality (data visualization)
Alarming doesn’t quite cover it… I’d read about this report before, but the data visualization here really makes it crystal clear how abysmal our situation is. One of the best data visualizations I’ve seen. (Although I still think showing the HE…
The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts
“This is not going to be an apocalypse, I think as some people have said. It’s just dumb. And it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt individual people and it’s going to hurt the economy overall.”– President Barack Obamahttp://thinkprogress.org/po…
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4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor Peoplehttp://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never-understand-about-poor-people/?page=full(Add “media person” to this, not just politician.)
Krugman: the frantic effort to find some example, somewhere, of austerity policies that succeeded
“…At this point, you might have expected austerity advocates to consider the possibility that there was something wrong with their analysis and policy prescriptions. But no. They went looking for new heroes and found them in the small Baltic nat…
Some facts.
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The insantiy of U.S. “Defence” spending (chart) #priorities
But, you know, we’d better stop funding PBS — cause instead of providing free educational programming to children, with that 1 year of funding we could pay for our military to operate FOR AN ENTIRE 6 HOURS!!Well at least we don’t have a deficit o…
It’s gettin hard out here for a pimp: World’s richest woman makes case for $2-a-day pay
“The world’s richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, said her country’s mining industry couldn’t compete with nations that are willing to pay workers less than $2 a day for their sweat and labor.The implicit suggestion: Employers sh…