Four Numbers that Show the Beating Down of Middle America

[JEB]

There's something perversely wrong with a society that creates $30 trillion in new wealth while putting six million more children on food stamps.

The mainstream media rarely publishes facts like this. The super-rich keep building up their own numbers, as quietly as possible. And our leading members of Congress have little need for numbers, except for budget cuts and the strings of zeros at the end of their campaign contributions.

But numbers have the power to reveal the dramatic fall of the middle class over the past 35 years.


Go to the link and read the short article by Paul Buchheit.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/16/four-numbers-show-beating-down-middle-america

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