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I saw the movie "Inequality for All," where Robert Reich explains the depth and meaning of inequality in America. He paints a compelling picture.Reich sets up the movie with a teaser: "Something happened in the mid-'70s."Indeed "something did happen in the mid-'70s." For one thing, since then workers' wages as a fraction of the total economy have lagged by more than a trillion dollars per year. If workers' wages had kept up with gains in productivity since the mid-70's, wages would be double what they are now. Most new income goes to the top 1%.
A math teacher was found dead Wednesday in the woods outside her Massachusetts high school, and authorities said they would charge a 14-year-old student with murder.
Broad sections of the country are in for their first taste of chilly weather this week as a cold front extending from the Plains states to New England spreads east from the Rockies.
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). America's workers have felt the consequences ever since.A new report from the Economic Policy Institute examines the primary result in the United States of China's entry into the WTO, a massive increase in the trade deficit between the two countries, favoring China. The report's author, Robert E. Scott, concludes that the trade deficit with China drives down wages and benefits in the United States and eliminates good jobs for U.S. workers.
The attorney for an alleged al Qaeda operative captured by U.S. commandos in Libya said on Tuesday it will take months to comb through the hundreds of thousands of documents in the case before he is ready to proceed.
A teenage babysitter was arrested Tuesday and charged in the death of a 5-year-old Texas boy who accidentally shot himself with the babysitter's gun while she was napping, authorities said.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two men of Native American descent in Oklahoma said on Tuesday they plan to take advantage of tribal law to marry, although gay marriages are illegal in the state.
The attorney for an alleged al Qaeda operative captured by U.S. commandos in Libya said on Tuesday it will take months to comb through the hundreds of thousands of documents in the case before he is ready to proceed.
In an event partly organized by elements claiming to be members of Anonymous, demonstrators gathered in Maryville, Mo., on Tuesday to hand out daisies and rally in support of a teenager whose alleged sexual assault was never prosecuted.
The careers of four Air Force officers who held the keys and codes to launching nuclear missiles are likely over after they were severely reprimanded for leaving blast doors open on their underground launch capsules, Air Force officials told NBC News on Tuesday.
