Working Life

I’ll be marching in the Millions March NYC tomorrow to show solidarity, as organizers say, “For All Those Innocent People of Color Killed By The Misuse of Police Force.” It’s worth remember, in these days when the energy continues to stop the killing of people of color via the barrel of the gun, that another part of racism continues every day: the relentless economic racism leveled by the so-called “free market” against people of color, particularly African-Americans.

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Well, of course, you didn’t–and this is no Nigerian prince scam. Rather, it’s the average income for the top 400 earners in the U.S. This isn’t the top 1 percent. This is the ubber top percenters, the .001 percent.

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   Jacqueline Siegel is the target audience Republicans–and too many Democrats–fear will be the awful victims of higher taxes on the wealthiest one percent. Join me as we shed tears together for the woes of the Siegels.  The ballroom: Jacqueline Siegel paces the floor of her unfinished 7,200-square-foot ballroom. The former beauty queen, with platinum-blond […]

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    You want a reason for the uprisings in Greece, where workers are on strike to protest the brutal austerity measures, or OccupyWallStreet or the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia fanned by the deep unemployment? Or are you looking for a reason people don’t believe the economy is getting better even when "growth" seems to […]

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    It’s a head-scratcher–to some. Wealth has been created globally but, somehow, a suffocating blanket of austerity is embracing the world. But it would be no surprise to the people in the streets in Greece or to the millions of people here who cannot find work to read the headline in the left-wing, socialist rag…Financial […]

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     A crisis is a great time for the richest in the world. When you have a lot of money, it’s a buy, buy, buy atmosphere where you can make even more money from distressed assets or countries like Greece, who are forced by the financial mandarins into a "fire sale" of national assets to […]

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   No one should be surprised that the rich are doing quite well. We’ve lived through at least a thirty-year robbery of the wealth of the nation. But, it’s worth digging into some of the numbers to get to this point: the divide between the rich and the rest of us has never been this […]

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I think we are making a mistake, both economically and politically, by confining our defense of Social Security to an argument about simply preserving current benefits. We should be pushing for an INCREASE in Social Security benefits as both a social and economic necessity.   Let me start with the hardest challenge facing people who […]

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