For the bottom 90% of American households, the “prosperity” of the “recovery” since 2009 is a bright shining lie. The phrase is from a history of the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

‘Police have attacked hundreds of protesters angry at growing unemployment in Tunisia’s west-central city of Kasserine, following the suicide of an unemployed young man in the area. Security forces fired tear gas on Tuesday to scatter the demonstrators as they assembled in front of the headquarters of the Kasserine Governorate, while some threatened to commit […]

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‘High tech, specialized robots are about to replace droves of low-wage factory workers and send them packing. Samsung is partnering with South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to invest nearly $15 million in new robots that will take away the jobs that Chinese workers typically do. The new robots will be in charge […]

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As Turkey gears up for one of the most important elections in its recent history, the country appears, as one analyst noted, to be coming apart at the “seams”: Longstanding tensions with the country’s Kurdish population have broken out into open war. A Kurdish-led left political party is under siege by rightwing nationalists and the […]

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‘It didn’t take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness. In January 2014 I was 35-years-old, raising a six-year-old nearly full-time and six months pregnant without a partner. I was in my final semester of college and convinced I would have enough savings to get me through the summer after graduation with […]

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‘On Monday, New York City took a dramatic step that highlights just how out of control rental housing costs have become in the Big Apple and in many cities nationwide. For the first time, New York froze rents for one-year leases on a million rent-stabilized apartments. “Today’s decision means relief,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told […]

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On Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5 percent. Since an unemployment rate of 5 percent is considered to be “full employment” by many economists, many in the mainstream media […]