Working Life

All you need to know about what the elite are doing to the people is to understand what people in Spain are doing to feed themselves.

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I think it is always useful to see the threads connecting what might seem to be things that happen independently. The big picture is this: we live in a dysfunctional economic system which has created the greatest divide between rich and poor in a hundred years–and that is a global point. Here, for your consideration, […]

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   It is not surprising, given an astonishing level of underemployment, that we learn this: The number of Americans who lived in households that lacked consistent access to adequate food soared last year, to 49 million, the highest since the government began tracking what it calls “food insecurity” 14 years ago, the Department of Agriculture […]

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It doesn’t astound me that people are angry and bitter. What astounds me is that somehow the goodness of most people keeps them from taking to the streets in mass rioting. To wit:    A whole bunch of very powerful and wealthy financiers create an economic disaster and who suffers? Citigroup, caught in the midst […]

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