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The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end-- and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we...
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"A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the kitchen table to Congress, debates are punctuated with...
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Set against the backdrop of America's growing disapproval of current economic policies, the film takes a provocative yet entertaining look at the nation's deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. It explains in plainest terms the choice between 'Reaganomics' and 'Obamanomics'. Ultimately, it's a call to action for Americans who care about their children's future and the future of the United...
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"The Lone Star State has a conservative history to be proud of, and proud it is. Now, with the influx of businesses and families relocating to the state from across the country, the political conversation has shifted drastically. In a historically red state, there are now far more Democratic minds with liberal ideology trying to swing the state blue. But Texas has reached its current point of success by maintaining conservative free-market policies,...
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In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. You'll never again...
39) A simple government: twelve things we really need from Washington (and a trillion that we don't)
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Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee surprised the nation by coming in second during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He connected with millions of voters by calling for a smaller, simpler government that would get our of the way when appropriate. Huckabee continues to be the voice of commonsense conservatism through his television talk show, his radio commentaries, and his lectures....