Bernie Sanders Unveils A 12 Point Economic Plan To Break The Koch Oligarchs tinyurl/kctgxpx On the Senate floor today [December 2, 2014], Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break the backs of the Koch fueled oligarchs. Sen. Sanders said, ³Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?Today, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the median male worker earned $783 less last year than he made 41 years ago. The median female worker made $1,337 less last year than she earned in 2007. Since 1999, household income for the median middle-class family is less than it was a quarter century ago. We once led the world in terms of the percentage of our people who graduated college, but we are now in 12th place. Our infrastructure, once the envy of the world, is collapsing. Real unemployment today is not 5.8 percent, it is 11.5 percent if we include those who have given up looking for work or who are working part time when they want to work full time. Youth unemployment is 18.6 percent and African-American youth unemployment is 32.6 percent.²
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:36:21 +0000
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