Tag Archives: The Rich

The United States Is Not a Democracy: Michael Gould-Wartofsky on How the 1% Has Rigged the Game

By Elaine Magliaro Michael Gould-Wartofsky is the author of the book THE OCCUPIERS: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, which was recently released by Oxford Press. Gould-Wartofsky is a PhD candidate in Sociology at New York University, holds a BA in Government from … Continue reading

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“Losing Our Way”: Bob Herbert Talks with Bill Moyers about How America Has Become a Country with an Abundance of Wealth and a Serious Problem with Income Inequality (VIDEO)

  By Elaine Magliaro Back in 2011, Bob Herbert, who was then a columnist for the New York Times, wrote an op-ed for the paper titled Losing Our Way. In his column, Herbert looked at the income inequality plaguing the … Continue reading

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