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01-07-2014, 10:56 PM
Portside Date: January 5, 2014
Author: Jesse A. Myerson
Date of Source: Friday, January 3, 2014
Rolling Stone
https://portside.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/inequality-300x214.jpg?itok=676cHlhlIt's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain unemployed – and the new jobs being created are largely low-wage, sub-contracted, part-time grunt work.
Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation (like myself) regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But that egalitarian impulse isn't often accompanied by concrete proposals about how to get out of this catastrophe. Here are a few things we might want to start fighting for, pronto, if we want to grow old in a just, fair society, rather than the economic hellhole our parents have handed us. ...
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Author: Jesse A. Myerson
Date of Source: Friday, January 3, 2014
Rolling Stone
https://portside.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/inequality-300x214.jpg?itok=676cHlhlIt's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain unemployed – and the new jobs being created are largely low-wage, sub-contracted, part-time grunt work.
Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation (like myself) regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But that egalitarian impulse isn't often accompanied by concrete proposals about how to get out of this catastrophe. Here are a few things we might want to start fighting for, pronto, if we want to grow old in a just, fair society, rather than the economic hellhole our parents have handed us. ...
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https://portside.org/2014-01-05/five-economic-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting