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...the relationship between pity-charity liberalism and unconditional, universal programs related to economic security. A perfect example is how labor in the New Deal was treated differently by gender. ...Precarious, vulnerable work was once relegated solely to women, but in this day and age more and more of us will fall into that category.
...the precarious worker is “indebted, insecure, vulnerable.” If the classic notion of a worker “relies on having a bargaining place at the table with the boss,” then precarious workers aren’t workers (even though all they do is work or try to cobble work together).
...the precarious nature of gender and work is both reflected in and amplified by governmental regulatory regimes, and...the future looks bleak in terms of bending those regimes toward just ends. Suzanne Mettler’s Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (1998) is useful for this conversation. ...
[Re FDR's New Deal] It just so happened that the federal government’s role regulated the work and lives of white men, while the state and local role retained authority over women and minorites. ...
The crucial point is that liberal inclusion was based on long-term, full-time work for a single employer. If you had a job along those lines –and these jobs were held by white men at that time — then you were included in a regime of universal economic security.
...For insight into how the current administration’s approach is playing out in this model, take a look at the administration of health care reform. ...
[Whoa. I know kung fu. -L]
I want you to endorse a bill in Congress that won’t pass anytime soon.
I know that sounds odd. But right now Congress is so broken that any talk of real solutions is painfully rare and gets steamrolled quickly.
Today is a turning point. This morning the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced the RESTORE the American Dream Act for the 99%.
This bill is exciting and refreshing: it is a real plan to fix the economy.
I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins. I love that they are spontaneous, leaderless and open-ended. I love that the protesters refuse to issue specific demands beyond a forceful call for economic justice. I also love that in Chicago — uniquely, thus far — demonstrators have ignored the rule about vagueness and are being ultra-specific about their goals. I love that there are no rules, just tendencies.
I love that when Occupy Wall Street was denied permission to use bullhorns, demonstrators came up with an alternative straight out of Monty Python, or maybe “The Flintstones”: ...
Most of all, I love that the Occupy protests arise at just the right moment and are aimed at just the right target. ...
“Economic justice” may mean different things to different people, but it’s not an empty phrase. It captures the sense that somehow, when we weren’t looking, the concept of fairness was deleted from our economic system — and our political lexicon. Economic injustice became the norm. ...
It’s not that investment bankers should be held responsible for all the ills of the world. It’s that Wall Street is emblematic of an entire economic and political system that no longer seems to have the best interests of most Americans at heart.
...We have no shortage of politicians in this country. What we need is more passion and energy in the service of justice. We need to be forced to answer questions that sound simplistic or naive — questions about ethics and values. Detailed policy positions can wait.
The objections people have [to the status quo] are not radical, they're pure and heartfelt. ... The requests are basic, but stem from a similar, brutal experience of life in America in the twenty-first century. When Brown is writing about us becoming the systems we need, she is tapping into this sentiment and the ways in which the community that is #OccupyWallStreet is already seeking to be the answer to its own question.
...I have mixed feelings...about some of the tactics and the lack of coherent goals and the protestors comparing themselves to the Arab Spring activists, even while ...I’m on board with their general grievances pertaining to the prioritization of corporations over people ...while millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet.
...we should all be concerned with how the NYPD is handling the situation. The protests have been, by almost all accounts, peaceful, even if the protestors didn’t have a permit. The NYPD is nonetheless making mass arrests, using mace, and manhandling protestors.
Look at the pictures and tell me that seems right. Try to envision Tea Party activists or even abortion clinic protestors...being maced, arrested en masse, violently thrown to the ground, or roughly dragged down the street. ...
It doesn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen. And it shouldn’t happen to left-wing protestors in lower Manhattan, either.
Our leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. ...
The mega-rich pay income taxes at a rate of 15 percent on most of their earnings but pay practically nothing in payroll taxes. It’s a different story for the middle class: typically, they fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot. ...
Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our country’s finances. They’ve been instructed to devise a plan that reduces the 10-year deficit by at least $1.5 trillion. It’s vital, however, that they achieve far more than that. ...Only action that is immediate, real and very substantial will prevent [many Americans'] doubt from morphing into hopelessness. That feeling can create its own reality.
President Obama ramped up the pressure on congressional Republicans to accept the principle of shared sacrifice and stop shielding "millionaires and billionaires" from paying their fair share of the cost of deficit reduction. ...
Go to OurFuture.org/SharedSacrifice to demand your House and Senate representatives draw a firm line in the sand: for every dollar cut on services for all, a dollar in higher taxes on the richest Americans.
According to data compiled for the Financial Times, “bank chiefs’ average pay in the US and Europe leapt 36 percent last year to $9.7 million.” Workers in private industry, meanwhile, saw their wages rise by just two percent. ...
...the House is debating the Republican’s 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which, as we’ve been documenting, slashes funding for food assistance, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from accessing aid.
...at the same time that they’re slashing food assistance to ribbons, House Republicans plan to increase defense spending by $17 billion.
Talking Points Memo has a post about the declining share of labor in that big yummy gateau we all share as income. It's now the lowest it has been since 1948! Great work, Republican governments! And a few triangulating Democratic governments, too.
...most of the wealth middle-class people own is tied up in their houses and in their retirement plans, and we know what has happened to the values of those.
Today, the Republicans in the House of Representatives celebrated this massive redistribution of wealth from American families to oil executives. With the support of 7 oil-patch Democrats, 234 Republicans voted to block a bill to eliminate a $1.8 billion annual subsidy that treats oil drilling as “domestic manufacturing”:...
The canary in the coal mine is the death of young people's "freedom to live adult lives typified by choice rather than economic compulsion." And, despite all Goldwater's guff about honoring "our founding fathers," conservatives did it by dragging our fou
[Marginal Revolution - Alex Tabarrok]
Ezra Klein writes:
"The top 1 percent, for instance, has gone from capturing about 8 percent of the national income to 18 percent. But there's no obvious skills differential between workers in the top 1 percent
[ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES - echidne]
Christina Hoff Sommers is a famous anti-feminist. She has written an op-ed for the New York Times on why the Paycheck Fairness Act would be a BIIIIG mistake. It's because women deserve to earn less. Also...
[Crooks and Liars - Susie Madrak]
It's always good to remember that not all rich people are selfish and greedy. Here's a great example of some wealthy people who aren't fixated on "more, more, more":...
...Americans think very much alike on wealth distribution. Amazingly alike. High-income or low, Republican or Democrat, young or old, male or female, Bush voters or Kerry voters, Americans are united in what they believe is the ideal distribution of wealt
[ABA Journal Top Stories]
Debtors’ prisons are making a comeback as states jail defendants who can’t afford to pay court-imposed fines and fees, including “pay-to-stay” jail fees and public defender charges, according to reports by two public interest or
[RHRealityCheck.org - Jodi Jacobson]
[Firedoglake - emptywheel]
[The most pointy point of this article comes right at the end. -L]
...a growing strategy against global poverty is showing strong signs of success... handing out cash directly to those who need it...
The strategy is rooted in a simple idea: people generally know what’s best for themselves...
It should be said up front
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