By Brian McGrory
Mr Kelly had an annual compensation package of $US50 million for the past four years. - That's just shy of a million dollars a week, $192,000 per working day, $24,000 an hour. To run an insurance company. Continue
What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share?
By Les Leopold
America is loaded. We are not a struggling nation ready to go under. We are not facing an enormous debt crisis despite what the politicians and pundits proclaim. We are not the next Greece. Continue
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It's not the first time, but it's still attracting lots of attention: a man stripped off all his clothes in the Portland airport and stood in the nude to protest the TSA, leading to security lanes being closed and, um, passengers averting their eyes.Continue
Visualize Your Tax Dollar: Where did the federal government spend all the money you paid in income taxes during fiscal 2011? Here’s how to find out.
Report estimates 8 million children hurt by foreclosures: One in 10 U.S. children has been or will be affected by the nation's surge in foreclosures, a new report says.
Report estimates 8 million children hurt by foreclosures: One in 10 U.S. children has been or will be affected by the nation's surge in foreclosures, a new report says.
By Kenneth Rapoza
By Bill Moyers
With help from the government, the tax code, and their own money, there's no limit to how rich the super-rich aim to be -- disconnecting themselves further and further from the American people as a result. Bill Moyers examines the gap.Continue
For-profit colleges are massively ripping off U.S. taxpayers
By Andrew Leonard
An example of blatant hypocrisy sufficient to outrage even the most jaded observer of American politics. Continue
Staggering rise of the British food bank:: One in five Britons are borrowing money for groceries because of the soaring cost of living
Crisis to Suicide: How Many Have to Die Before We Kill the False Religion of Austerity?: The rate of people taking their own lives is soaring in Europe at such a clip that the trend has given birth to a new media term: "Suicide by economic crisis."
IMF tells US to sort out debt, quickly: The International Monetary Fund issued a clarion call to bickering US politicians Tuesday, urging them to solve the country's debt problems before a still-vulnerable economy is tipped over the brink.
Let them eat bombs: Republicans to slash food stamps: From food stamps to child tax credits and Social Service block grants, House Republicans began rolling out a new wave of domestic budget cuts Monday but less for debt reduction — and more to sustain future Pentagon spending without relying on new taxes.
Report: New York City’s poverty rate broke record in 2010: The report, released on Tuesday, found that the number of the New Yorkers classified as poor in the year increased by nearly 100,000 from 2009, pushing the poverty rate up by 1.3 percentage points to 21 percent, The New York Times reported.
All Work and No Pay: Corporate profits: going strong. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery.
How To Keep Healthcare Costs High In One Easy Lesson: America's pharmaceutical companies are still the most innovative in the world, no matter what the naysayers claim. Unfortunately, their innovation seems to reside mostly in their legal and packaging departments, not their R&D departments.
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