Why Is Our Life Expectancy Shorter Than in Other Developed Countries?
Reprinted from Too Much: An online weekly on excess and inequality To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth people can expect to live the longest lives. Let’s talk life expectancy. The…
Inequality is real, it’s personal, it’s expensive and it was created
Robert Reich just keeps getting better and better:
Viral Video (6 min): US Wealth Inequality as You’ve Never Seen It (Obscene Greed Since Reagan)
Based on a popular Mother Jones post on inequality. More graphs from Mother Jones:
Deficit Scaremongering By “Fix The Debt” Campaign
Reprinted from Pete Peterson Pyramid under Creative Commons License Fix the Debt Astroturf Supergroup The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation’s “debt problem.” Through…