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    Caviar for Working Folk

    MARCH 6, 2013 12:32PM

    By Charlene Sayo


    Topics: wealth, working class, poor, rich, health, pain, stress, anxiety, fear, bullying, immigration, father, mother, unemployment, parents, finances, money, family

    • 0 Ratings
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    Rich Rednecks

    NOVEMBER 28, 2012 9:34PM

    By ptittle


    Topics: economy, status, money, lower class, working class, rich rednecks

    • 10 Ratings
    • 1289 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    I voted for Jill Stein, fuck you very much.

    OCTOBER 28, 2012 2:04PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: barack obama, bill clinton, bp, british petroleum, california, catholic church, catholics, collective bargaining, democratic party, democratic party hacks, drone strikes, drone warfare, drones, electoral college, environment, george w. bush, green party, i voted for jill stein, jill stein, labor, labor unions, mitt romney, mittens romney, mormon cult, mormonism, mormons, nate silver, obamabots, pakistan, peace, politics, popular vote, progressivism, proposition 8, ralph nader, republican party, republican tea party, richard m. nixon, ronald reagan, same-sex marriage, scott walker, theofascism, union rights, unions, war, wisconsin, working class, paul krugman, larry summers, timothy geithner

    • 1 Ratings
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    Our Means to Liberate

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2012 12:20PM

    By Brian Chiu


    Topics: book, working class, identity, class

    • 3 Ratings
    • 334 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Hello New Readers

    JULY 20, 2012 11:48AM

    By Livia Gershon


    Topics: journalism, working class, new hampshire, nashua

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    Team Obama pushes utterly uninspiring money race

    JUNE 30, 2012 5:18PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: wisconsin, wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, working class, belief/religion, environment, economy, feminism, gay/lesbian, arnold schwarzenegger, barack obama, billionaires, california, democratic party, gray davis, green party, jerry brown, john kerry, john mccain, julianna smoot, labor, labor movement, labor unions, meg whitman, middle class, millionaires, mitt, mitt romney, mittens romney, money-grubbing weasels, mormon cult, mormonism, mormons, nutmeg whitman, obama, obamabots, political fundraising, politics, president barack obama, president obama, presidential politics, romney, sarah palin, scott walker, stephanie cutter, team obama

    • 5 Ratings
    • 704 Views
    • 9 Comments
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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

    • 0 Ratings
    • 442 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

    • 1 Ratings
    • 300 Views
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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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 3323 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    A Stroll Through My Old (Formerly Segregated) Neighborhood

    JANUARY 19, 2012 7:35PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: segregation, working class, neighborhoods, glenmont, maryland, jim crow, environment, family

    • 1 Ratings
    • 467 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

    • 2 Ratings
    • 665 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Kmart and Sears

    DECEMBER 27, 2011 3:09PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: sears, red star rising, china, competition, manufacturing, working class, little caesar's, kohl's, bacon's, l s ayres, j c penney, king's, hill's, target, macy's, department stores, online shopping, holiday spending, retail, kmart

    • 2 Ratings
    • 430 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Getting Medieval on the Economy

    NOVEMBER 30, 2011 4:12PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: united states, economy, economics, wealthy, working class, income distribution, class distinctions, brits, andrew caplin, new york university, london, cambridge, yale, serfs, battle of the somme, china, chickens

    • 4 Ratings
    • 744 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Voters soundly reject the wingnut agenda

    NOVEMBER 9, 2011 2:10PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: ohio, voting rights, voter supression, abortion, barack obama, herman cain, john boehner, john kasich, john kerry, labor movement, left wing, middle class, mitt romney, politics, racism, racists, right wing, russell pearce, scott walker, swing states, white supremacism, white supremacists, wingnuts, wingnuttery, wisconsin, working class

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1055 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Notes on the nationwide occupations

    OCTOBER 17, 2011 8:28PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: american revolution, barack obama, bongo drums, california, capitalism, capitalists, class warfare, cops, corporations, corporatocrats, episcopal church, force, greed, labor unions, nonviolence, occupy sacramento, occupy wall street, plutocracy, plutocrats, police brutality, president hopey-changey, profiteering, revolution, revolutionaries, ronald reagan, sacramento, second american revolution, socioeconomic violence, ted rall, traitors, treason, violence, wall street, wall street greed, working class, economy, politics, banks, credit unions

    • 4 Ratings
    • 417 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    It’s Lonely Being in the 99 and Insulation (of the mind)

    OCTOBER 6, 2011 2:24PM

    By Shannon Moon


    Topics: slavery, romney, class warfare, middle class, working class, recession, 99, poverty, founding fathers, revolt, occupywallstreet

    • 1 Ratings
    • 346 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Single Dad

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 9:09AM

    By Livia Gershon


    Topics: single fathers, fatherhood, working class, new hampshire, nashua

    • 1 Ratings
    • 266 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Bootstrapper

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 10:13AM

    By Livia Gershon


    Topics: working class, landscaping, new hampshire, nashua

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    • 28 Ratings
    • 2133 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Quitting the Old Neighborhood

    AUGUST 22, 2011 7:06PM

    By Rw005g


    Topics: meritocracy, working class, quitting, rustbelt, new york, mormons, tuscon, life after quitting, populism, working class, sunbelt, open call, arizona, nyc

    • 0 Ratings
    • 355 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    "TEATHUGLIKANS " PREACHING CLASS PREJUDICE

    AUGUST 15, 2011 8:51AM

    By AMLICAR CABRAL


    Topics: tea party, president obama, class prejudice, middle class, working class, south america

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