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.

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 "Whole Foods Caught Lying To Customers About Its Support For Monsanto-Pushed GMO Fake Labeling Bill In The U.S. Senate"  

Wednesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Another Day, Another Police Shooting
- Benjamin Dixon, The Benjamin Dixon Show  

Article: "Alton Sterling shooting: Video of deadly encounter with officers sparks outrage" by Catherine E. Shoichet, Dave Alsup and Joshua Berlinger.

Article: "Department of Justice to lead probe of Baton Rouge police shooting" by Doug Stanglin.

Article: "North Carolina legislature OKs police footage access rules" by AP.

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "911 recording in Corey Jones police shooting released; 'I just shot one person,' officer says" by Adam Sacasa.

Article: "Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries" by Chandler B. McClellan, Erdal Tekin.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

 

Article: "Police chief, mayor, others offer new details on Alton Sterling shooting" by WAFB.

Article: "Watts riots" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Works Progress Administration" (WPA) by Wikipedia.

Video: Rachel Maddow: FBI credibility questioned in fishy shooting.

Article: "Ferguson unrest" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How 4th Generation Warfare Helps To Explain the Rise of Donald Trump
- Chauncey DeVega, Salon  

Article: "How "4th Generation Warfare" helps to explain the rise of Donald Trump" by Chauncey DeVega.

Book: "The Turner Diaries: A Novel" by Andrew MacDonald.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia (Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols).

Book: Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by "Thomas Hobbes" (William S. Lind).

Article: "Trump Meets Man Who Inspired 2011 Terror Attack Deadlier Than Orlando Shooting".

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Wallace" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

 

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".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Big blow to Freddie Gray case: Van driver acquitted" by John Bacon.

Article: "Freddie Gray Case: Baltimore City Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. not guilty of murder" by Gary Gately.

Article: "Baltimore Police Officer Acquitted in Trial Over Freddie Gray Arrest" by Scott Calvert.

Article: "Death of Freddie Gray" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes" by Hadas Gold.

Article: "The Report of the Iraq Inquiry" by Sir John Chilcot.

Site: Iraq Inquiry website.

Article: "Jeremy Corbyn's Chilcot Report speech and apology for Iraq War: Full transcript" by Ann Gripper.

Article: "Chilcot report: Tony Blair's Iraq War case not justified" by BBC.

Article: "I always wondered what this chilling quote from Bush adviser Karl Rove meant in practice-Now we know" by kpete.

Article: "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind.

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."

Article: "regnant Women Who Persistently Take OTC Drugs For Pain May Increase Kids' Risk Of Autism" by Stephanie Castillo.

Article: "Trump's "Greatest Mentor" was Red-Baiting Aide to Joseph McCarthy and Attorney for NYC Mob Families" by Democracy Now!.

Book: Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X.

Book: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

Article: "W. E. B. Du Bois" by Wikipedia.

Site: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Site: National Museum of the American Indian.

Article: "Warren Ballentine" by Wikipedia.

Book: The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Codified Word Guide by Neely Fuller Jr.

Movie: "Free State of Jones".

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Luke Vargas 

Article: "Zika virus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Zika virus disease" by WHO.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Article: "Quick Morning News - FBI Rips Clinton on Emails: No Charges - July 6, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Quick Morning News - Obama-Clinton: Road Trip Buddies - July 5, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "What you need to know about the police killing of Alton Sterling" by Josie Duffy Rice.

Article: "Louisiana is the first state to offer hate crime protections to police officers" by Elahe Izadi.

Article: "Paul Ryan's Tax Plan Is Just a Shift toward Less Obvious Tax Breaks for the Rich" by Hunter Blair.

Article: "Hillary Clinton Wants a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments" by AP.

Article: "Bernie Sanders applauds Hillary Clinton's education plan" by Nicole Gaudiano.

Article: "Comey and Lynch to testify on investigation into Clinton's emails" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Feres v. United States".

Article: "Comey Breaks Silence: White House Tried To Force Incapacitated Ashcroft To Back Spying Program" by Think Progress May 15, 2007.

Article: "Red Summer (1919)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "People's Climate March" by Wikipedia.

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