Rith Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 46.4 percent of households will pay no federal income tax in 2011. This is, for the most part, not because people have chosen to loaf. It’s because they are work…
“Half the committee ought to be women, even though women only account for 17 percent of the Congress> Women are going to be disproportionately affected by what the committee does. I’m very troubled by the fact that these 11 men and one woman are now goi…
Barbara Ehrenreich writes a new afterword for her famous book, reprinted on TomDispatch.com: “The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has indeed been criminalized…
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George Zornick writes for The Nation’s blog: “After all the debate over who would be affected—or not—what does the final policy scoreboard say? . . . In short, it’s a rout of the lower and middle classes by the wealthiest Americans.”