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Union Membership Falls, Top 10 Percent Get More Wealthy
 According to The Economic Policy Institute - As union membership has taken a tumble - the top 10 percent have been getting more wealthy. Union membership fell to 11.1 percent in 2014, where it remained in 2015. The share of income going to the top 10 percent, meanwhile, hit 47.2 percent in 2014-only slightly lower than 47.8 percent in 2012, the highest it has been since 1917 (the earliest year data are available). When union membership was at its peak (33.4 percent in 1945) the share of income going to the top 10 percent was only 32.6 percent. To boost wages for working people, policymakers need to intentionally tilt power back to working people by strengthening their rights to stand together and negotiate collectively for better wages and benefits, raising and improving labor standards, and achieving persistent low unemployment. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
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Big Picture Rumble:
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- Neil McCabe, Breitbart
Best of the Rest: We Are All the Drivers Of Climate Change
- Dr. Rush Holt, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
PLUS, The Dirty Secrets Behind Clean Coal
- Dan Zegart, Climate Investigations Center
- Brett Wingo, Southern Company Clean Coal Project Whistleblower. |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour Two: How 4th Generation Warfare Helps To Explain the Rise of Donald Trump - Chauncey DeVega, Salon Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". Article: " My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005. then Governor George Bush stated, "One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as commander in chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."
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