Thursday, 18 February 2010

Real, Uglier American Unemployment

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth.  If you think the terrible impact of America ’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again. Continue


The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth

What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?

By David DeGraw

The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse. Continue