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We need Trumans on tax today. More are more aware today on matters of
e.g. race, yet, in 10 years, basically little has changed in the guts of things.

The History Behind the White House Tax Deal

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Reputable and respected pundits and policy makers with mainstream platforms — Nobel laureates like Joseph Stiglitz, former top officials like Robert Reich — have been rigorously linking our current hard times to what Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker calls our “economic hyperconcentration at the top.”

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Divided states of America

October 30, 2010

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''Our politics follows from our economics, and vice versa,'' says Robert Reich, a leading progressive intellectual, once a member of Bill Clinton's cabinet and now Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

''In times of economic growth, when everyone's incomes are growing, it's easy to feel generous,'' says Reich. ''In times of economic stagnation, when incomes are flat or endangered, almost every issue becomes a zero-sum game in which either you win or 'they' win.''

And how. Those divisions are being magnified once more by the grim economic reality in which America stews - divisions of race, of class and mostly of opportunity - while scapegoats are being stalked. Illegal immigrants, whose cheap labour has for decades helped underpin economic growth, are being demonised.

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