A young man holds a sign as hundreds of workers, organizers, and supporters gather outside of the McDonald’s Corporation Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Oak Brook, Ill., protesting for a $15 an hour wage and the right to unionize. (AP/M. Spencer Green)
Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Giving new credence to a provocative 2014 study showing the United States is controlled by powerful elite interests, as opposed to the desire of its citizens, a new poll released Thursday shows that three-quarters of Americans feel voiceless and largely powerless in the nation that heralds itself as the world’s preeminent democracy.
A worker takes part in the manufacturing of hats the Bollman Hat Company in Adamstown, Pa. (AP/Matt Rourke)
America’s Common Man exists no more – gone and forgotten. Once he was lauded as the salt of the earth – our country’s embodiment of what made us special, of what made the great democratic experiment successful, of what made of the United States the magnetic pole for the world’s masses.
(MPN) — America’s rich just won’t quit getting richer, according to a new study released in mid-June by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.
America’s oligarchs are set to maintain their grip on the majority of the country’s wealth, with a new study claiming that they will control 70 percent of national wealth by 2021. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
Karlie Kloss, the supermodel, Instagram star, business woman, YouTube sensation, and coder, has decided to tackle the gender wage gap. The gap is real insofar as men and women tend to choose different lines of work, and there are many reasons why people may do that, but culture is a big one. This is what Kloss seeks to change.
On the April 25, 2015 episode of Exposing Faux Capitalism, I covered the following issues: Non-existent gender wage gap when correcting for voluntary and natural differences, Toronto’s first Black police chief says it doesn’t mean he has superpowers, latest Jan Helfeld debate with anarchist and Just for Laughs show reveals cultural Marxist mindset.
so why aren’t we listening, shaping policy around what the downtrodden know and see?
