What is happening to you America? Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast. Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most vibrant middle [...]
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America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Proud Cities Are Turning Into Poverty-Stricken Hellholes
Tagged with: American, Baltimore, Cancer, Chicago, Cities, Cleveland, Detroit, Economic Despair, Economic Miracle, Free Enterprise, Good Jobs, Hellholes, Income, Long-Term, Manufacturing, Middle Class, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Poverty
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21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Everyone Should Know
If the economy is getting better, then why does poverty in America continue to grow so rapidly? Yes, the stock market has been hitting all-time highs recently, but also the number of Americans living in poverty has now reached a level not seen since the 1960s. Yes, corporate profits are at levels never seen before, [...]
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal Cliff Deal
The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news. Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class. Unfortunately, they didn’t do enough. Every American worker is going to pay higher taxes [...]
Tagged with: All Of This Debt, America, Blind, Debt, Finances, Fiscal Cliff, Government Debt, Higher Taxes, Middle Class, National Debt, Tax, Tax Increase, Tax Increases, Taxes, The Debt, The U.S. National Debt, This Debt
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Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff Is Going To Rip You To Shreds
The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013. Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings. So happy [...]
Tagged with: AMT Tax, Decline, Fiscal Cliff, Gift, Income Taxes, Middle Class, Paychecks, Payroll Taxes, Tax, Tax Bill, Tax Bills, Tax Hikes, Tax Increases, Taxes, Taxpayers
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Posted in Michael Snyder
From Good Jobs To Bad Jobs To No Jobs – The Tragic Downfall Of The American Worker
There was a time in America when virtually anyone that wanted a job could go out and get one and the United States boasted the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world. Sadly, those days are long gone. Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of [...]
Tagged with: America, Economy, Job, Jobs, Manufacturing, Middle Class, Part-Time Jobs, Professional, Prosperous, Service, The American Worker, Unemployment, Working Years
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The Mancession: 16 Signs That This Economic Decline Is Sucking The Life Out Of The American Male
This economic decline has been really hard on everyone, but it has been particularly hard on American men. During the last recession male employment dropped like a rock and it has not recovered much at all since then. That is why many referred to the last recession as a “mancession”. Industries where men are disproportionately [...]
Tagged with: Big Companies, Construction, Economic Decline, Economic Despair, Education, Employment, Family, Income, Industries, Liabilities, Lifestyle, Male, Manufacturing, Men, Middle Class, Overseas, Recession, Unemployed, Wages
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25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction
The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don’t even realize what is happening. Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government. The United States once had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world, [...]
Tagged with: Big Corporations, Dependent, Economic Despair, Economic System, Employee, Financial, Financial Liabilities, Government Dependence, Liabilities, Middle Class, Money, Mortgage, Opinion, Payrolls, Polemic, Profit, Small Businesses, The Mortgage, Wealth
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