One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation's social, economic, and moral strength
Poverty in America: Bigger than ever and rapidly spreading. The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being swollen by turbulent economic waters sweeping millions of Americans downstream from the middle class. This is our nation's true economic crisis. Unlike the manufactured "fiscal cliff" hysteria that continues to consume Washington politicos and pundits, the present pace of poverty really is dragging down our economy and our nation's potential for greatness.
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [
Political fronts posing as charities
I think of a “social welfare charity” being like The Little Sisters of the Poor – not The Little Koch Brothers of the Plutocracy.
Yet, the brothers have created their very... [read more]
The GOP, corporate money, and sticky blood platelets
Perhaps I've been too harsh on congressional Republicans.
I had assumed that their vitriolic attacks on even the meekest of proposals to restrict the tsunami of secret corporate cash slamming into our elections stemmed... [read more]
A new home for poverty in America
It's been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation's political agenda – and it's time to move it up again.
Even as those at the top of our society... [read more]
Walmart goes to the Devil
Blending classical literature with the computer technology of subterranean imaging, scientists have made an astonishing discovery – namely, there is a tenth level of Hell!
In the 14th century, Dante,... [read more]
Corporate kleptocrats are the real radicals
"Outside radical groups," squawked Rep. Scott Garrett at a recent Republican inquisition into a citizens' petition that's been submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Garrett is foaming at the mouth... [read more]
The high-tech sledgehammering of our middle-class future
Sometimes, the collusion between big corporations and "our" government is so ridiculous, so rancid that is makes you laugh, cry, and gag – all at once – and then you pass out from the sheer... [read more]