YES! Today's wealth gap is greatly hindering our youth’s success.
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YES! As Obama has said income inequality is "the defining challenge of our time."
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Yes, and Obama is just a much to blame as the rest of the Democrats and the Republicans. The decline of unions and rise of the corporate oligarcy, of which both parties are owned, also share in the blame. Maybe it's the obvious result of exporting jobs or NAFTA, or unsecured borders and flooding of illegal immigrants which has reduced the availibility of many low wage and entry level jobs that some students or those just entering the workforce would take, and thus driving down wages as competition for these jobs increase; the depressing of wages or the increase in private debt (especially school debt). Perhaps it's the corruption of the political system to the point where "reform" is seen as a punchline in some bad joke.
What has been created is essentially a two tier economic system with little or no hope of much social movement with a declining quality of life, and a small and wealthy political class whose tenure is all but assured through district gerrymandering and Citizens United; an oligarcy in place of our democratic republic.