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. [
" Back - Up Bill "
Jim Hightower thinking that Bill Clinton doesn't need to move to the right -- as most Washington pundits and politicos are demanding. He just needs to quit backing-up.
He backed up on the jobs bill compromising it from a $40-Billion... [read more]
Student - Loan Reform
Jim Hightower thinking that the person who said you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip -- was never in the grasp of a banker.
One automatic money-machine for America's bankers is the federally-funded program that makes loans to help students... [read more]
Bread and Roses Cafe
Jim Hightower talking about a restaurant that serves an exclusive clientele: people without money -- a restaurant for the unemployed and the homeless.
Now, Bread & Roses is not a soup line. No, you've got to make reservations to... [read more]
Diamond - Walnut
Jim Hightower talking about the Diamond Walnut Company, which claimed in the mid-'80s to be on the Brink of Broke. So the country's largest processor of walnuts asked workers to take cuts . . .to save the company.
Represented by... [read more]
Shell No - Pest Strip
Do you ever get nostalgic for the '70s?
You know -- Disco music, Richard Nixon . . . and those handy "No Pest Strips" that Shell used to sell. Ahhh, mutagenic memories.
Jim Hightower . . . back in a... [read more]
NIMBY
A few years ago, a West Texas citizens group learned that Washington officials were about to plant High Level Nuclear Waste underneath their farms.
Now this is an area of quiet, law-abiding, church-going families. Not the kind of place where... [read more]