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    Barack Obama makes it easy to be Green

    MAY 28, 2012 6:19PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: gay/lesbian, working class, wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, wisconsin, war profiteers, war profiteering, war, vietraq war, u.s. military, same-sex marriage, saddam hussein, republican tea party, republican party, reichstag fire, presidential politics, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, pepsi party, obama, nazis, nazi party, mittens romney, mitt romney, military-industrial-corporate complex, military industrial complex, middle class, memorial day, matt taibbi, labor unions, labor movement, labor, june 5 presidential primary election, john mccain, john kerry, jill stein, iraq war, iraq, halliburton, green party, gray davis, george w. bush, doma, democratic party, defense of marriage act, cruz bustamante, coke party, california gubernatorial recall election, california, bushcheneycorp, bill clinton, big oil, barack obama, arnold schwarzenegger, arnold

    • 2 Ratings
    • 108 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Money and Needs

    MAY 20, 2012 4:39PM

    By Julie White


    Topics: money, middle class, downsizing, npr, itzhak perlman, class consciousness

    • 0 Ratings
    • 134 Views
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    Biden’s endorsement is not nearly enough

    MAY 6, 2012 3:54PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: working class, wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, wisconsin, vice president joe biden, states' rights, separate but unequal, separate but equal, scott walker, same-sex marriage, president barack obama, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, obama, mittens romney, mitt romney, middle class, marriage, labor unions, labor rights, labor movement, labor, joseph biden, joe biden, human rights, gulf of mexico, gov. scott walker, equality, equal rights, discrimination, cowardice, civil rights, british petroleum, bp oil spill, bp, bigotry, big oil, biden, barack obama, abraham lincoln, politics, gay rights, gay/lesbian

    • 0 Ratings
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    Requiem for the Middle Class

    MAY 4, 2012 10:47AM

    By Joe MIrsky


    Topics: the 1 percent, middle class, income inequality

    • 11 Ratings
    • 456 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Jim Macdonald’s Refreshing Appeal to Us Babbling Fools

    APRIL 14, 2012 7:20PM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: lower class, middle class, media, corporations, obama, protest, american citizens, jim macdonald

    • 7 Ratings
    • 319 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    And now, on to the voting booth!

    MARCH 29, 2012 9:41PM

    By Karen McKim


    Topics: politics, wisconsin, walker, recalls, labor, middle class, protests, occupy

    • 6 Ratings
    • 429 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Who is Insulting the Middle Class?

    MARCH 25, 2012 8:54PM

    By David Brin


    Topics: benefits, government, middle class, economy

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    • 23 Ratings
    • 1837 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Spring in Wisconsin: The things we do with friends

    MARCH 11, 2012 4:46PM

    By Karen McKim


    Topics: occupy, protests, middle class, labor, recalls, walker, wisconsin, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 278 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Woe is Me . . . I'm Unemployed Too

    FEBRUARY 26, 2012 1:48PM

    By Paula Torrey Mamuscia


    Topics: unemployment myths debunked, open call, job, work, middle class, american, network, depression, optimist, weight, resume, paycheck, poverty

    • 1 Ratings
    • 224 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Bastard Children of America

    FEBRUARY 18, 2012 5:14PM

    By Jonathan Thornton


    Topics: middle class, politics, politicians, obama, barrack hussein obama, conservative, the working man, rouch necks, rednecks, america, working class, pregnant women, dying society, zeus, belief/religion, business, design, economy, environment, family, feminism, for+sale, health, music, news, poetry, science, technology, greek mythology, gentlemen, forgotten, soldiers, misfortune, who is the middle class

    • 1 Ratings
    • 510 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Tax Inequity and the Middle Class--Top Issue for 2012

    FEBRUARY 12, 2012 3:23PM

    By David Brin


    Topics: middle class, tax income rates, taxation

    • 0 Ratings
    • 207 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    BANG! You’re Very Poor

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 8:24PM

    By Omnipotent Poobah


    Topics: weston state hospital, wealthy, vote, very poor, trans-allegheny lunatic asylum, tax-dodging, relate to middle class, poverty, politics, politically powerful, outsourcing, mitt romney, middle class, economics, crapweasels, class warfare, cayman island

    • 3 Ratings
    • 665 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Obama angers GOP by standing up for middle class

    JANUARY 29, 2012 9:11AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: saul alinsky, clintonism, neo-liberalism, fox news, frank luntz, democratic party, fdr, great depression, 2008 financial crisis, state of the union address, wall street, southern strategy, populism, newt gingrich, thomas frank, middle class, supply side economics, rightt wing, tea party, president obama, republican party, economics, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 5401 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Shattering the class warfare taboo

    JANUARY 13, 2012 12:49AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: politics, rush limbaugh, election, class conflict, president obama, mitt romney, middle class, jimmy zuma, republicans, independents, democrats, wealthy, citizens united, class warfare, occupy wall street, pew research center

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 3019 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    The Great Recession: Now It's Personal

    JANUARY 12, 2012 12:20PM

    By Cedar Burnett


    Topics: childcare, healthcare, ulcerative colitis, chronic illness, anxiety, money, middle class, recession, economy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 253 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Online to Offline : A Career Transition

    JANUARY 7, 2012 7:12PM

    By Andrew Ghezzi


    Topics: economy, middle class, internet, career, jobs

    • 1 Ratings
    • 323 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Mitch Daniels on Workers and Income

    JANUARY 5, 2012 4:00PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: mitch daniels, 2012, state legislature, right to work laws, work rights, per capita income, economy, unions, middle class, working class, economic policy, free trade, indiana

    • 1 Ratings
    • 374 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    We shall hang together or we shall surely hang separately

    DECEMBER 17, 2011 10:45AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: wall street, jobs, wage gap, middle class, economic planning, capitalism, adam smith, ayn rand, euro crisis, austerity, republican party, supply-side economics, economics, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 2651 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Stocks point to a dying middle class

    DECEMBER 2, 2011 8:09AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: politics, class war, great society, new deal, business insider, bloomberg, jimmy zuma, nick hanauer, tax, upper class, policy, economic, economy, middle class, stocks

    • 2 Ratings
    • 349 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Libertarian Dreamer

    NOVEMBER 29, 2011 1:59PM

    By Sean Fenley


    Topics: social anarchism, reform, progressivism, populism, middle class, ibertarian

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