LIFE IN THE U.S.A.: Some Key Statistics

  50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line.   (Columbia University School of Public Health study here )   20 individuals now have as much wealth as the poorest 150 million Americans (half the country per The Nation magazine here ).   A study by the Atlantic found that …

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Conservatives & Progressives are now joining together to unrig our system (and corporate-funded centrist political leaders are not happy about it)

Fascinating. Conservatives and progressives are getting together to unrig our system.  Over 600,000 people have already joined this movement (and it's only just begun). Check out the two short video clips below. They're very sharp and get right to the point. They show: a) how the system is rigged and b) one way to fix …

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