February 2012
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Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
“Five wealthy people, led by Dallas industrialist Harold Simmons and Las Vegas...”
– Five people. FIVE PEOPLE are controlling 25% of the national conversation.
We need campaign finance reform, and we need it now.
25% of super PAC money coming from just 5 rich donors
(via world-shaker)
