Corporate executives don't give a damn about their workers, and it's all because of Reagan. A new analysis released by the Economic Policy Institute shows just how much of a "screw the workers" mentality today's corporate executives have. According to EPI, in 2013, the share of corporate income that ended up in the pockets of the men and women who make corporate executives so filthy rich hit its lowest point since 1950.

 

And, as Think Progress points out, corporate profits "have risen nearly 20 times faster than workers' incomes since 2008, and on the whole workers have seen a lost decade of stagnant wage growth."

 

So, corporations are taking in more and more money, their executives are getting bigger and bigger paychecks, but the workers responsible for all of that wealth are barely seeing a dime of it.

 

Why is that?

 

Read more here.

 

-Thom

 

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Do you really want a Libertarian healthcare system in America? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Be sure to check out our new video: CARBON - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

 

 

Big Picture Politics Panel:
- Tommy Christopher, The Daily Banter    
- Hughey Newsome, Project 21      
- Sean Noble, American Encore    

 

Screwed: Democracy's high stakes...
- John Wellington Ennis, Pay 2 Play.

 

 

Corporations are NOT people...
- Jeff Clements, Free Speech for People / Corporations are Not People  

 

       

  

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Where is the NRA's conscience?
- Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter 

Article: "The NRA's Multimillion-Dollar New Ad Campaign Is Despicable" by Michael Daly.

Article: "Child firing Uzi at Ariz. shooting range accidentally kills instructor, police say" by Steve Almasy, AnneClaire Stapleton and Ray Sanchez.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008.

Article: "Ravens, NFL Cut Ties With Ray Rice Following Release Of New Video" by Nicholas Salazar.

 

Article: "Gaming vlogger Anita Sarkeesian is forced from home after receiving harrowing death threats" by Soraya Nadia McDonald.

The good: "Panera Asks Customers Not To Bring Guns Into Its Restaurants" by Ben Hallman.

The bad: Oakleaf High School: "Florida school forces new student to wear 'shame suit' after skirt deemed too short" by David Ferguson.

The very, very ugly: "Brian Kilmeade on Ray Rice: Take The Stairs" by Joshua De Leon.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann - new updated version out now!

Article: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "54 Fabulous Colorized Photos From the Last Century" by FourScore.

Article: "Standing Rules of the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "" by .

Site: "U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration".

Article: "Rules and Procedure" by U.S. Senate.

Article: "Ray Rice ELEVATOR KNOCKOUT Fiancee Takes Crushing Punch (Video)" by TMZ.

Hour Two: Is it free speech or a hostile work environment
- Justin Danhof, National Center for Public Policy Research 

Article: "Government May Soon Direct What Private-Sector Employees May Say in the Workplace" by National Center for Public Policy Research.

 

Book: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon.

Book: The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.

Article: "Once Were Warriors (film)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "heroine" by Dictionary.com.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Article: "Obama to press Congress for action on Islamic State" by Reuters.

Article: "Obama To Deliver Address On ISIS Threat Wednesday Night" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Dick Cheney Tells GOP It's Time To Restart The Iraq War Machine" by Jennifer Bendery, Michael McAuliff.

Article: "Ferguson city council says it plans review board" by AP.

Article: "VA secretary lays out 90-day plan for fixing troubled agency" by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/9/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "News Notes- 9/8/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Look out...food fight!!
- Professor Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington 

Article: "Food Fights: The Contested Terrain of the American Dinner Plate" by Ben Agger.

Article: "A Debate Fueled by Carbs (or the Lack Thereof)" by Anna North.

Book: Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society by Ben Agger.

Book: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1948).

Book: "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx.

Book: Fat Is A Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach.

Article: "Caldwell Esselstyn" by Wikipedia.

Site: NutritionFacts.org.

Article: "From omnivore to vegan: The dietary education of Bill Clinton" by David S. Martin.

Article: 'Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Last Heart Attack' by CNN.

 

Article: "Luby's shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox host spends 12 seconds not apologizing for 'stairs' quip about NFL domestic violence" by David Edwards.

Article: "Hannah Giles" by Townhall.com.

Article: "Time to end the bloody Ukraine conflict" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "Gaijin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Behind Closed Doors, Cheney Tells Republicans That Obama Supported Muslim Brotherhood" by Ben Jacobs.

Article: "Operation Iraqi Liberation Press Briefing " by Ari Fleischer, March 24, 2003.

Video: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death by Michael Greger M.D..

 

Economic and Labor News

Article: "Fast-food workers to walk off job in fight to gain $15 hourly wage" by Reuters.

Article: "The Truth About The 40-Hour Workweek: It's Actually 47 Hours Long" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "Challenge to Sweeping NSA Dragnet Reaches Highest Court Yet" by Nadia Prupis.

Article: "Over 50 Organizations Call on Google to Drop Membership in American Legislative Exchange Council" by Brad Bauman.

Article: "Clothing Company Takes A Stand For Body Diversity: 'It's Time For The Fashion Industry To Wake Up'" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Free excerpt, read book for free at Truthout, buy the book!

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Racist Policing in America

How to power Planet Earth

The REAL Cost of a Big Mac

Why the GOP is embracing over the counter birth control

Koch Brothers are running in all elections...

Conversations with Great Minds P1 - How Mushrooms Can Save the World

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Full Show 9/8/14: Republicans Embracing Birth Control?

Thom discusses the Senate bill that could overturn the Citizens United decision with Common Causes' Stephen Spaulding, how some Republicans are embracing over-the-counter birth control with the National Women's Law Center's Sharon Levin and how a Big Mac would NOT be $12 if the minimum wage was raised to a living wage. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at the racial bias among our nation's police.

Caller: I See Two Drunks in the Ray Rice Video...

Caller: The NFL Gave Ray Rice a Pass...

Male Dominance is Societal Disease...

Thom Hartmann on Economic & Labor News: September 8, 2014

Caller: Jersey Cops Harassed us for Videotaping our Vacation!

Will your iPhone also be your credit card?

Caller: Border Patrol Agent Followed me Because I 'Eyeballed' Him...

Genocide by Manhaters?