occupyallstreets:

The U.S. And Canada’s Middle Class Has Not Grown In Over 30 Years

Only Mexico’s middle class has grown over the past 30 years in North America, while income disparity has increased in Canada and the United States, according to a study here out Tuesday.

“Mexico’s middle class has benefited from urbanization, greater female employment, improved education and better social programs,” said economist Lars Osberg, the author of the report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Similar trends in Canada and the United States helped maintain middle-class growth until the 1970s, Osberg said, but those trends “have since run out of steam.

“Globalization, technological advances, a drop in unionized work, and a deregulated labour market have contributed to stagnant real incomes for most in Canada and the US since the 1980s,” he said.

Osberg said that income disparity “has accelerated” in both Canada and the United States.

“When the rising savings of the rich are parked in the financial markets, but everyone else falls deeper into debt, a house of cards is created, producing the kind of economic instability that led to the 1929 financial sector crash and the market meltdown of 2008.”

The path to stability “requires either an acceleration of the income growth rate of the bottom 99 percent or a decline in income growth of the top one percent,” Osberg said.

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think-progress:

Plastic bags in L.A.: 2012 (2.7 billion), 2014 (ZERO). Source.


These are some basic vaulting moves. He’s learning how to stand patiently. Soon, he’ll be able to walk quietly, then trot, then eventually canter while I perform these moves on his back. 


This is Chili my 13 year old Dutch Warmblood gelding. 

Yes, Anon, I have. 

The hard part about that in the United States is so many people make money off of war. In what sort of situation would you deem another country “unwilling to compromise” an appropriate time for a use of force? What issues would you believe war is worth the cost? 

Yes, I will be spending most of my time on here today posting anti-war propaganda. 

(Source: getinvolvedyoulivehere)