The Occupy Wall Street protesters say they speak for the 99 percent of the population left out of the gains made in recent decades by the super rich. “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,” a
Continue reading …Thousands of American citizens flagged for deportation since 2008 have been U.S. citizens, a new report says. Secure Communities is a federal program that scours fingerprint logs from local jails for illegal immigrants to deport. A report from the Berkeley Law Center in California finds that 1.6 percent of Secure Communities apprehensions, in a random
Continue reading …Thousands of American citizens flagged for deportation since 2008 have been U.S. citizens, a new report says. Secure Communities is a federal program that scours fingerprint logs from local jails for illegal immigrants to deport. A report from the Berkeley Law Center in California finds that 1.6 percent of Secure Communities apprehensions, in a random
Continue reading …While moderating Tuesday night’s Republican debate from Las Vegas, CNN’s Anderson Cooper misstated the facts about a contentious discussion involving taxes and the Occupy Wall Street protests. “You said in the last debate that everyone should pay something,” Cooper said at one point to Michele Bachmann. “Does that mean that you would raise taxes on the
Continue reading …While moderating Tuesday night’s Republican debate from Las Vegas, CNN’s Anderson Cooper misstated the facts about a contentious discussion involving taxes and the Occupy Wall Street protests. “You said in the last debate that everyone should pay something,” Cooper said at one point to Michele Bachmann. “Does that mean that you would raise taxes on the
Continue reading …How could the story of an exotic animal farm owner letting loose all of his wild beasts before killing himself get any stranger? With the help of a herpes-infected monkey. By Wednesday afternoon Ohio authorities hunted down and killed almost all of the 56 animals who were turned loose Tuesday evening. The Columbus Dispatch has
Continue reading …Thanks in large part to Occupy Wall Street, the issue of inequality is all over the news. But could the gap between the 99 percent and the super-rich minority actually be narrowing since the downturn? Some new data suggests the answer might be yes. According to findings released by Steven Kaplan of the University of
Continue reading …Thanks in large part to Occupy Wall Street, the issue of inequality is all over the news. But could the gap between the 99 percent and the super-rich minority actually be narrowing since the downturn? Some new data suggests the answer might be yes. According to findings released by Steven Kaplan of the University of
Continue reading …Thanks in large part to Occupy Wall Street, the issue of inequality is all over the news. But could the gap between the 99 percent and the super-rich minority actually be narrowing since the downturn? Some new data suggests the answer might be yes. According to findings released by Steven Kaplan of the University of
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