Weekend Reading

Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name

Republicans Throwing Away Our Money

The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Milwaukee Tool's downtown project proceeds as key committee approves $12M in city subsidies

Anderson Cooper: Pretty much everything Sen. Johnson said is dangerous

SmithGroup Will Design Harbor District Riverwalk

How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality

The New Gerrymandering Scheme

West Allis is the Hottest City in Wisconsin

Kavanaugh an ill-considered choice to pen ruling on incorrigible childhood offenses

Sotomayor gives blistering dissent to Trump SCOTUS appointees who find juvenile not worthy of parole

Bill Requires MPS Reimburse Private School Transportation Costs

Why the "Reagan Revolution" Scheme to Gut America's Middle Class is Coming to an End

This Is Years of Starving Government and Deregulating Industry at Work

The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy

Foxconn fallout: Mount Pleasant Village President says 'everything is on the table' for renegotiating local development agreement

Stop Measuring Life According To The Stock Market

The Police

Weekend Reading

Trump's Economy Is An Absolute Disaster For People And The Planet
IMF Head Gives 'Stark Message' Of Looming Inequality-Fueled Global Financial Disaster
Report Ties Green Energy To Economic Growth
The Great Dismantling Of America's National Parks Is Under Way
The Foxconn Debacle Is Key To What The Trump Era Has Meant In Wisconsin
Why Drink Is The Secret To Humanity's Success
The Enduring Awe And Legacy Of 'Mad Men'
President Donald Trump Touts Economic Record At Downtown Milwaukee Campaign Rally
White House Budget Office Violated Federal Law By Withholding Ukraine Security Funds

Weekend Reading

There Is No Labor Shortage
We Don't Have Labor Shortage. We Have A Pay Shortage.
Fighting Climate Change May Be Easier Than We Think
Heavy Job Loss Since The 1970s Hit Milwaukee's Black Community The Hardest. Here's Why.
The Case Against The Electoral College In Stronger Than Ever
Journal Sentinel Slams "Liberal" News Site
David Koch's Monstrous Legacy
I Helped Create The GOP Tax Myth. Trump Is Wrong: Tax Cuts Don't Equal Growth.
Humans Versus Earth: The Quest To Define The Anthropocene
New Inequality Numbers Are A Gift To Campaign Sloganeers
No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income
How Trump's Foxconn Deal Conned Wisconsin Out Of Billions
The Financialization Of The American Elite
The 'War On Cars' Is A Bad Joke
Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit
Brazil, The Amazon, and Global Warming: It Ain't Quite What The Media Tell You
The Trump Vs. Obama Economy - In 15 Charts

Any Democrat Will Do 2020

So many good candidates and good ideas.  Hopefully the Democratic Party can coalesce into a strong, coherent platform with unwavering candidates for President and Vice President.

Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple too

With Estate Tax on Nation's Richest, Bernie Sanders' "For the 99.8% Act" Applauded for Targeting "Tyranny of Plutocracy"

The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting

The Green New Deal, explained

Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids money

Proposal to impose a progressive annual wealth tax on American households with net worth (sum of all assets net of debts) above $50 million

Sen. Sanders’ College for All Act

Sanders Files Bill to Strengthen, Expand Social Security

Bernie Sanders's new Medicare-for-all plan, explained

Two senators are proposing national rent relief bills. Here’s why it matters

Warren Proposes Universal Child Care Plan Funded by Wealth Tax

Ending the War on Marijuana

Sunday Reading

Wisconsin Jobs Agency Writes Off $1.1 Million Loan Owed By DePere Businessman Jailed For Defrauding Investors
Three Reason Why The U.S. Is Vulnerable To Big Disasters - And Getting More Vulnerable All The Time
U.S Coal Industry Shows No Signs Of Comeback
High Court Sticks It To Milwaukee
Justice Kennedy Wasn't A Moderate
A Trade Tutorial For Trump
Which Anti-Poverty Programs Work
The Mind-Bendy Weirdness Of The Number Zero, Explained
In Many States, The End Of Roe V. Wade Is Already Here
Growth Benefits Of U.S. Tax Cuts May Be Overestimated: Fed Study
Fresh Proof That Strong Unions Help Reduce Income Inequality
New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off
Walker Protected Polluters Who Illegally Dumped Human Waste
How The Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around The Country

Weekend Reading

Trump Again Sues Over Property Tax Bill For Jupiter Golf Course
The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem
Good News: Wages Are Up
Experts Say This Is The Ideal Retirement Savings Timeline
The U.S. Drops Out Of The Top 10 In Innovation Ranking
The Right Question About Inequality And Growth
A New Map For America
An Unwelcome Tax Surprise Could Soon Lurk In Your Paycheck
Big Money Rules
President Trump's First Year, In 14 Metrics
Kansas Provides Compelling Evidence Of Failure Of "Supply-Side" Tax Cuts

Weekend Reading

Amazon Is Thriving Thanks To Taxpayer Dollars
The Mathematicians Who Want To Save Democracy
High Speed Rail Study Shut Down In The Midwest
The NFL's Secret Formula For Saving The U.S. Economy
No, Donald Trump Has Not Made The Economy Great Again
Foxconn's Low Return On State Investment
Bill Helps Real Estate Industry
Massive New Data Set Suggests Economic Inequality Is About To Get Even Worse

Sunday Reading

Want To See How America Is Changing? Property Taxes Hold The Answer
The Failed Promise Of Miller Park
Paul Krugman Gets Retail Wrong: They Are Not Very Good Jobs
United Isn't The Reason Air Travel Is So Miserable
Where Is The World's Most Sprawling City?
Growing Life Span Inequality Has Given The Rich An Extra $130,000 In Government Benefits
The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburban
Florida's Go-To Stadium Economist Is A Hack, A Shill, And Also Not An Economist
Climate Change Is Altering The Environment In Ways That Increase The Potential For Viruses Like Zika
11 Charts That Show Marijuana Has Truly Gone Mainstream
CEO Pay Is Out Of Control. Here's How To Rain It In

Weekend Reading

The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter
The Links Between Gut Microbes and the Brain
The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten
The Religious Right's Big Lie About the Founding of America
You're Not Irrational, You're Quantum Probabilistic
American Failure: The 401(K)
The 401(K) Crisis is Getting Worse
Inequality in Our Retirement Accounts
The Rage of the Bankers
Why Does Wall Street Want Higher Rates?
The Stock Market is Not the Economy
The Case Against Raising Interest Rates Before Wage Growth Picks Up
The Failed Reaganomics Experiment In Kansas Keeps Getting Worse
Red States Spent $2 Billion in 2015 to Screw the Poor

Inequality Was Created

Weekend Reading

Conservative Silent About Romney-Alinsky Link
The Founding Father Backed Health Insurance Mandates
Inequality 101: The Picket Fence & The Staircase
The Old, White, Rich Men Who Are Buying This Election
Out Of Control Medicare Spending? Maybe Not
Venture Capital Is Sucking (Your Money)
Want To Cut Health Care Costs? Start Here
What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad

Unequal

The Gilded Age returns. Until wages again reward productivity rather than speculation (which has occurred alongside the post late-1970s increase in inequality) we will continue to experience, more frequently, economic boom-and-bust periods.

Poverty Measurement Studies and Alternative Measures from the U.S Census Bureau.

Insanity

The inequality and injustice gaps widen.

Update:
At Rescued Banks, Perks Keep Rolling

Inequity

400 richest Americans lined their pockets with $30 billion.

Power to the People

Great article from Bob Herbert.

Corrections to the $70-Per-Hour Myth

Class warfare is alive and well. And what better time for it to rear it's ugly head -- when we're teetering on a depression. But, then again, if you were the financial wizards, free marketeers, and laissez faire capitalists whom had boosted, brokered, and gotten us into this mess, you'd want to find a scapegoat too. Well, who better to blame than those damn unionized workers. Luckily, there are still a few good journalists out there to squash such nonsense.

Detroit's $70-an-hour auto worker
Do Autoworkers Make $70 Per Hour?
$70 per hour meme
Countdown's Worst Person in the World
Rachel Maddow & Ron Gettlefinger of UAW
Rachel Maddow Dissects White Collar V. Blue Collar Bailouts
Unions Being Scapegoated

Let's also take a look at what the executives are making.

Executive Excess 2008
Executive Incentives
Executive Pay (Business Week)
Executive Pay (Economic Policy Institute)
Executive Pay (PBS)
Executive Pay (NY Times)
Executive Pay News
Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)
Five Lousy CEOs Who Get Fabulous Pay
My Big Fat CEO Paycheck
Pay Without Performance

Now, for some perspective, let's look at inequality in the United States.

By The Numbers

And, some basic income numbers (obtained from the Census Bureau).
Percentage of the population & income:
30% earning under $25,000
55% earning under $50,000
75% earning under $75,000
85% earning under $100,000
95% earning under $150,000

An attempt was made here to conceptualize this issue and present it with a bit more breadth than it is being given by the mainstream media. We can see the problem isn't that workers are making extraordinary sums of money and putting their employers at a competitive disadvantage. The problem is the greed of executives, their mismanagement, and their unwavering obsession with short-term gains and share price manipulation, rather than the long-term sustainability of their companies.

But this is class warfare, never mind the truth. I'm off to Washington in my private jet to ask for a bailout. Damn those unions!