The party is over but actually, all we, on this list can do, is watch in
horror. The new budget includes a cut in social security disability benefits
for people who are able to find work. Think about that. A disabled person
manages to find work in this terrible economy and he or she will be
penalized for it more financially, than before. Also, the budget includes
cuts to medicare providers. That means we'll lose some providers, I assume.
There's been a lot of bad news in the past two days: a bill passed that
allows internet companies to give our information to the government, a
decision to introduce ground troops back in Iraq, the bombing of another
Doctors Without Borders hospital, this time in Yemen by the Saudi alliance
which the US supports, the removal of more rights from Palestinians who live
in East Jerusalem. That's just a sample.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: More Than Half of U.S. Wage Earners Make
Under $30,000 a Year, According to a Shocking New Report
Have we been so brainwashed that we can't see the hand writing on the wall?
As the old song says, "The Party's Over..." As our people sit by, blaming
their problems on Unions, Big Government, Socialism, Muslims, Atheists and
Agnostics, Blacks, Jews, and all other minorities. We've been well trained.
We are the passive victims of all sorts of conspiracies. We've become so
conditioned to reacting, rather than thinking, that we are rushing,
Lemming-like, to our own destruction. Once America takes its place among
the Third World Nations, it will not matter if our Masters are Military
Junta's or International Corporations. Democracy will be dead. And we will
never realize that it died by our own inability to take responsibility.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/28/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
country:
More Than Half of U.S. Wage Earners Make Under $30,000 a Year,
According to a Shocking New Report
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/more_than_half_of_all_amer
icans_ make_under_30000_dollars_a_year_20151027/
Posted on Oct 27, 2015
We can probably all agree now that the wealth gap in the U.S. has
pretty much turned into a gaping abyss. (Shutterstock) Wage statistics
for 2014, recently released by the Social Security Administration,
provide proof to the claim we all feared was true: The middle class is
actually disappearing. As the online publication Washington's Blog
notes, 51 percent of U.S. workers in 2014 made less than $2,500 a
month before taxes-which is below the poverty line for a family of
five. What's worse is that as the numbers in the original report are
parsed, other stunning facts become clear. For instance, the fact that
nearly 40 percent of Americans aren't even making $30,000 but rather
are earning closer to $20,000. Or that 70 percent of workers made less
than $50,000 in 2014.
All of this just illustrates in vivid detail how far the wealth gap in
the U.S. has widened. We've gotten to the point where the majority of U.S.
citizens are barely making enough to make ends meet, and let's face
it, most aren't even scraping by.
Michael Snyder explains in his post for Washington's Blog how these
numbers don't even paint the full picture of income inequality in this
The federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, and yetthis point.
almost 40 percent of all American workers do not even bring in $20,000
a year.
If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two
weeks off, you would make approximately $20,000. This should tell you
something about the quality of the jobs that our economy is producing at
And of course [the numbers in the SSA report] are only for those thatcountry:
are actually working. As I discussed just recently, there are 7.9
million working age Americans that are "officially unemployed" right
now and another
94.7 million working age Americans that are considered to be "not in
the labor force". When you add those two numbers together, you get a
grand total of 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a
job right now.
The SSA report is reprinted in full, below.
-Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Wage Statistics for 2014
http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/ More Than Half of
U.S. Wage Earners Make Under $30,000 a Year, According to a Shocking
New Report
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/more_than_half_of_all_amer
icans_ make_under_30000_dollars_a_year_20151027/
Posted on Oct 27, 2015
We can probably all agree now that the wealth gap in the U.S. has
pretty much turned into a gaping abyss. (Shutterstock) Wage statistics
for 2014, recently released by the Social Security Administration,
provide proof to the claim we all feared was true: The middle class is
actually disappearing. As the online publication Washington's Blog
notes, 51 percent of U.S. workers in 2014 made less than $2,500 a
month before taxes-which is below the poverty line for a family of
five. What's worse is that as the numbers in the original report are
parsed, other stunning facts become clear. For instance, the fact that
nearly 40 percent of Americans aren't even making $30,000 but rather
are earning closer to $20,000. Or that 70 percent of workers made less
than $50,000 in 2014.
All of this just illustrates in vivid detail how far the wealth gap in
the U.S. has widened. We've gotten to the point where the majority of U.S.
citizens are barely making enough to make ends meet, and let's face
it, most aren't even scraping by.
Michael Snyder explains in his post for Washington's Blog how these
numbers don't even paint the full picture of income inequality in this
The federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, and yetthis point.
almost 40 percent of all American workers do not even bring in $20,000
a year.
If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two
weeks off, you would make approximately $20,000. This should tell you
something about the quality of the jobs that our economy is producing at
And of course [the numbers in the SSA report] are only for those thattp://www.linkedin.com/company/truthdighttp://truthdig.tumblr.com/http://www.
are actually working. As I discussed just recently, there are 7.9
million working age Americans that are "officially unemployed" right
now and another
94.7 million working age Americans that are considered to be "not in
the labor force". When you add those two numbers together, you get a
grand total of 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a
job right now.
The SSA report is reprinted in full, below.
-Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Wage Statistics for 2014
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