What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share? 8 Things to Know About Wealth and Poverty in the US

AlterNet by Les Leopold | Apr. 19, 2012 (News Analysis)
We're far from poor -- we just have a wildly lopsided distribution of wealth that makes us seem poor.

The wealth of the wealthy skyrocketed, not by accident, but by policy design. "Greed is good" replaced the middle-class American dream. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Poverty, Corruption, Wealth
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Apr 19, 2012 - 1:40 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Manfred Ostrowski (review), Randy Morrow (review), allbookmark (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Apr 19, 2012 - 1:44 AM PDT

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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Apr. 21, 2012

Doesn’t the wealth belong to the super-rich? Didn’t they earn it fair and square? Isn’t that the way it’s always been? Not by a long shot. The amount of ... More »

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 by Manfred Ostrowski - Apr. 20, 2012
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 19, 2012

the bottom 40 percent of American households has a net worth of nearly zero (.2 percent). If you take out the value of our homes, the bottom 40 percent has a ... More »

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