Monday, February 3, 2014

How Inequality is Crushing Workers, Families and Communities

www.alternet.org/economy/how-inequality-crushing-workers-families-and-communities?page=0%2C0
"Conservatives have slashed support for public education, infrastructure improvements, food stamps and unemployment assistance while fighting tooth and nail to protect farm subsidies for big agriculture, a health care system that gives the greatest tax subsidies to those in the top tax brackets and a host of mostly invisible measures that benefit hedge funds, oil companies, “too big to fail” banks, and other business interests. These measures simultaneously protect entrenched interests and make social mobility that much more difficult."