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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. Register and vote for cannabis! Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. [31]. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell will not take up minimum wage issue, and Trump says he will veto it. And: ‘A tale of 2 recessions’: Rich Americans get richer. Bottom half struggles. Skyrocketing hunger in US. Google searches: Racism and drug war. [32][33]. And: ICU beds at capacity. [34][35]. 2020 Ballot Initiatives. 24 Sep: Study: Use of Cannabis Long-Term Not Associated with Cognitive Differences in Older Adults.
16 Sep 2020: Cannabis Pilot Programs Are Sprouting in Europe. Switzerland's trial legalization.
12 Sep 2020: These US states are voting on cannabis legalization this November. Facebook event: South Africa Global Cannabis E-Protest. September 12-19, 2020. Banner below. Marijuana on the ballot - Ballotpedia. Scroll down to 2020. How vote by mail works in all 50 states for Election Day 2020 "Here's how each state and the District of Columbia is handling elections this year." 10 Sep 2020: Jimmy Carter says son smoked pot with Willie Nelson at the White House.
3 Sep 2020: In ‘landmark decision’, Pakistan approves industrial use of hemp and medical cannabis.
1 Sep 2020: Nearly 14% of Americans have wiped out emergency savings during coronavirus.
31 Aug 2020: Republicans stridently oppose Democrats' House bill to deschedule marijuana. Further exposing continuing Republican support of the racist cannabis war.
28 Aug 2020: Nebraska Medical Marijuana Initiative Qualifies for November 2020 Ballot.  21 Aug 2020: Someone turned green lights in Spokane, Washington into pot leaves. Absentee/mail-in voting - Ballotpedia. Scroll down for list of US states offering no-excuse mail-in voting.  6 Aug: NPR. 300,000 Deaths By December? 9 Takeaways From The Newest COVID-19 Projections. If 95% in US wore masks (50% now), 66,000 lives would be saved. Republicans refuse to MANDATE MASKS! 2 Aug: We Should Consider Starting Covid-19 Vaccinations Now. From: Forbes.  31 July: Women Who Use Marijuana More Often Have Better Sex, Study Says. What this really means: Trump supporters overall have worse sex, since they have a higher rate of disapproval towards cannabis.
26 July 2020: Texas House Speaker Says Legalizing Marijuana 'Could Be A Help' To Budget Woes, But He'd Vote Against It. We need to vote out these Republican morons.
16 July 2020: Seth Rogen Says Racist Cannabis Policing Harms Black Community, But Expungement Can Help. From: Forbes.
Countries with more people wearing face masks have much lower Covid-19 death rates. [41]. Chart below from BBC: Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate. See more charts. [42][43][44]. See Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country. 
9 July: Canada. Police chiefs call on Ottawa to decriminalize possession of illicit drugs for personal use.  26 June 2020: With 40,000 Americans Incarcerated For Marijuana Offenses, The Cannabis Industry Needs To Step Up, Activists Said This Week. From: Forbes.  14 June: Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down ramp at West Point graduation. 
12 June: Readers React: U.S. drug war partly to blame for rift between communities and police. "It is time to treat drug addiction as a public health problem rather than a police matter. Portugal takes this approach and their drug-induced death rate is one-fifth the European Union average." 12 June: Bernie Sanders And Cory Booker Talk Racial Injustices Of Marijuana Criminalization At Virtual Town Hall.  10 June: Should Police Departments Receive Military-Grade Equipment? "Critics also argue that the requirement the 1033 Program equipment be used within a year of approval incentivizes police departments to bring military equipment to situations that don't warrant it."  1 June 2020: Since the beginning of 2015 Minneapolis police rendered 44 people unconscious using neck restraints 237 times. Half of those 44 were injured. 29 May 2020: Biggest US petition of all time! Justice for George Floyd. Change.org.
27 May: After George Floyd's death in Minnesota, still think Colin Kaepernick's knee was the problem? 10 May: AOC. In Denmark starting pay at McDonald's is about $22 an hour. It's true. See Politifact.  10 May: Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin returns as Trump drinking Clorox in 'SNL' opener.  8 May 2020: DW. Cannabis may increase resistance to coronavirus. Preliminary research.  in Jackson and Iacono’s analysis [of the twin study], marijuana use and IQ were completely uncorrelated, and IQ measures fell equally in both the users and abstainers. Subsequent twin studies, including one performed with U.K. data by the Dunedin team, corroborated these findings of no relationship between marijuana use and a falling IQ. 6 May 2020: Louisiana Lawmakers Vote To Allow Medical Marijuana For Any Debilitating Condition, And To Legalize Delivery Services.
2 May 2020: 2020 Global Cannabis March. Many virtual, online events. 
27 Apr 2020: Swiss Parliament Passes Motion To Authorize Cannabis Production And Export. 22 Apr: Majority Of Americans Think Marijuana Legalization Is A Successful Policy, Poll Finds. Most Republican politicians follow the lead of their base. So vote out most Republicans. From the article: "Democrats were the most likely to say that legalization has been successful or mostly successful (67 percent), followed by independents (54 percent) and Republicans (41 percent)." Names of 50 nurses who died from COVID-19 read aloud in the shadow of the White House. [72]. Hospital horrors: Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out. [73][74] Stats. Video [75]. See News. Jails are hidden Republican death camps. [76][77][78][79] [80][81][82][83][84]. And: Nursing homes too (lack of testing). [85][86][87][88]. Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage of essential workers. [89]. Republicans bail out banks over people. So, Vote! See: Taiwan's COVID-19 control without a lockdown: Tests, contacts, GPS apps, masks, distancing, fevers. Calling for Trump's cabinet to invoke 25th Amendment to remove president after his call to inject disinfectants. [90][91][92][93][94]. US Republicans Voted Often to KILL Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [95][96][97]. COVID-19 is killing them. Blacks pushed to back of COVID in-hospital treatment line. 21 Apr 2020: Lebanon Passes Legislation Legalizing Medical Marijuana Cultivation As Economy Struggles Amid Coronavirus Fallout. 
20 Apr: Coronavirus sends 420 gatherings up in smoke, but potheads still plan virtual toke - ABC.  2020 events. And: Online 420 events: Facebook: World's Biggest 4/20 Online Smoke Sesh by International Highlife. See: Main page. See: F*ck Corona: Virtual 420 Celebration. [104][105][106]. More online 420 events: Brazil: [107][108]. Canada: [109][110]. Colombia: [111][112][113][114][115]. Italy: [116][117][118]. Germany: [119]. Mexico: [120][121][122][123] [124][125][126][127]. Puerto Rico: [128][129]. Phillippines: [130][131][132]. United Kingdom: [133][134][135][136][137][138]. United States: [139][140][141][142] [143][144][145][146] [147][148][149]. Free 420 Virtual Event. April 17-20. [150]. Compilations of many events: [151][152][153][154][155] [156][157][158][159].
 CNN: 11 times Donald Trump has 'belittled' coronavirus. CNN: Documents show backlog of 160,000 coronavirus tests at just one US lab company. It's Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work. Many studies cited. WIRED. [160][161] No-Sew Pleated Face Mask. Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines. [162][163][164][165]. The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life. How South Korea started mass testing right away in Jan 2020. [166] 'A perfect storm': US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars. 
Republicans have declared War on the Middle Class. 22 Oct 2019: Average French households 'more wealthy than Americans and Germans', new study reveals. See median-wealth chart. See graphic below about how Trump Republicans transferred wealth from average American households to the rich.  Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.  Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).  US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [168][169][170]. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: 
See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war. CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. This news feed may have long lapses.
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Polls before and after the first Global Marijuana March in May 1999. Global marches, rallies, and medical cannabis activism overcame the propaganda that massively escalated with
Reagan's war on cannabis.
It is sometimes difficult to get national and international media to cover the Global Marijuana March. But there is a lot of media coverage locally in many cities, including TV coverage. Many times even with just a few marchers. It really matters because it normalizes cannabis users in people's minds. "Oh, it is those yearly marijuana marchers again. No big deal." So more and more people get used to the idea, and go to the next steps of passive and active decriminalization. Such as looking the other way, limited legalization of possession, and eventually full legalization in some places. Kind of like how laws against interracial couples and marriage were ignored. Osmosis. See the large crowd shots worldwide.
Register and vote for cannabis.
2019
19 Apr 2019: Support for marijuana legalization hits new high (65%), CBS News poll finds.
2018
22 Oct 2018: 2 in 3 Americans (66%) Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [171]. By Gallup Poll.
26 Apr 2018: Poll: Support for legal marijuana hits all-time high (63%). By Max Greenwood. The Hill. Quinnipiac University poll. "Support for legalization hit 63 percent in the survey — the highest level of support recorded by a Quinnipiac poll".
2017
As of late 2017 polling even Republicans support recreational marijuana legalization. [172]. But not Republican politicians. CannabisVoter.info - Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out of office.
| From early 2017: There’s Only One Demographic That Still Thinks Marijuana Should Be Illegal. Republicans. See: Quinnipiac poll done Feb. 16-21, 2017. And: Pew Research poll results from September 2016. |
- March 29, 2017 article: Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016. By Christopher Ingraham. Washington Post. Timeline of polling from 1973 to 2016 by General Social Survey, the gold standard for public opinion research. Note the surge of support for legalization starting around 2005. Denver voted to legalize in 2005, the first major US city to legalize small amounts of marijuana.
- Pro-pot arguments fly higher with likely voters. March 8, 2017 Science Daily. More info: [173] [174].
- Quinnipiac poll: 71% oppose enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legal. February 25, 2017 article.
2016
For the first time more Australians support legalizing pot than oppose.
- Surge in support to decriminalise marijuana, multi-decade survey finds. By Heath Aston. December 25 2016. The Sydney Morning Herald.
The polls that matter the most are elections.
US states that have legalized as of the Nov. 8, 2016 election:
| States that have legalized. |
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| Current medical marijuana states, with map. And: Clickable MPP map. And: Clickable NORML map. |
2015
See Reagan's war on cannabis. Above timeline is adapted from one of the charts in this article:
| Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. By Russ Belville. October 21, 2015. |
- See also: inmystride.blogspot.com and Canadian opinion poll results.
2014
- U.S.: New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization. 28 Jan 2014. Hemp News. From the article:
Americans ages 18 to 34 favor marijuana legalization by a huge 49-point margin -- almost three of every four in this age group expressed support. Among those aged 35 to 49, just more than half said they support legalization, compared to 49 percent of those 50 to 64, reports Rebecca Ballhaus at the Wall Street Journal. Those over 65 oppose it, 59 percent to 38 percent.
2013
- In U.S., 38% Have Tried Marijuana, Little Changed Since '80s. 2 Aug 2013, by Lydia Saad. Gallup Politics.
2012 May. U.S. adults
- Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana: New Poll - Toke of the Town.
- Americans Decry War on Drugs, Support Legalizing Marijuana. Angus Reid Public Opinion.
"Across the country, 52 per cent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, while 44 per cent oppose it. Majorities of men (60%), Independents (57%) and Democrats (54%) would like to see marijuana legalized. Women (45%), respondents over the age of 55 (48%) and Republicans (43%) are not as supportive of legalization. In four nationwide surveys conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion on the topic of marijuana legalization since 2009, support has always surpassed the 50 per cent mark in the United States, and opposition has not reached 45 per cent."
"Methodology: From May 29 to May 30, 2012, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted an online survey among 1,017 American adults who are Springboard America panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 3.1%. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure a sample representative of the entire adult population of the United States. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding."
2012 May. Likely U.S. voters
- 56% Favor Legalizing, Regulating Marijuana - Rasmussen Reports. From the article: "A new national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 56% favor legalizing and regulating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed to such a legalizing and regulating pot."
2010 July. U.S. adults
Rasmussen poll. Source. 43% say marijuana should be legalized, and 42% disagree. While half of Democrats (51%) support legalizing marijuana, 62% of Republicans are opposed. Voters not affiliated with either major political party lean toward legalization by a 48% to 35% margin. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. They were simply asked whether or not they believed marijuana should be legalized.
2009 December. U.S. voters
A December 2009 poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion finds that 53% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, 43% oppose, and 4% are not sure. See: Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana. Poll question was "Do you support or oppose the legalization of each of the following drugs?" Methodology: "Online interviews with 1,004 American voters, conducted on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent."
2009 April. U.S. adults
"It’s not just a California poll. A WashingtonPost/ABC survey, also released last week, revealed that 46 percent of Americans support legalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use — that’s double the support it had a decade ago." - May 6, 2009. Christian Science Monitor. Article titled "Legalize marijuana? Schwarzenegger says let’s debate it." Actual poll: "Washington Post-ABC News Poll". Poll conducted April 21-24, 2009 of a random national sample of adults. The Washington Post. ABC News.
2008 US presidential election
"The Zogby poll, commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report, surveyed 3,937 voters and found 52 percent in favor of legalization. Only 37 percent opposed." - May 6, 2009. "Majority Of Americans Want Pot Legalized: Zogby Poll". The Huffington Post. See also: "New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated." May 06, 2009. Salem-News.com. "Is marijuana tax the next revenue stream?", by Michael B. Farrell. May 11, 2009. Chicago Sun-Times.
- *3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"
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Cannabis is safer.
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."
| 2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.
| Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example." |
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [175]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [176][177][178][179][180].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [181]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [182][183][184].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [185]. December 2015.
 Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [186]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
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Trump's far-right Republicans
Return to top. See: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
| News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman worked for both. Roosevelt and Truman, followed by Eisenhower, a progressive Republican, had steep progressive taxation where the prosperous middle class paid less taxes as a percent of their income, because the rich paid more. All 3 Presidents increased the minimum wage, [187], which pushed up middle class wages too. Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining [188].
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GOP taxes screw middle class
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.
| Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds. | "By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries". |
| 2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2. | |
Falling inflation-adjusted wages
- Return to top. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining (especially for Republican states with low minimum wages).
The Trump Matrix. Wage slaves waking up.
28 Feb 2020: PolitiFact: Rep. Mark Pocan is on point that wages haven't moved much in the last 30 years. "The cost of everyday goods like rent, groceries and cars have outpaced median wage growth. ... Accounting for inflation, the median wage has only increased $3 since 1990 — and the cost of living expenses has far outpaced that number."
| Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. 7 Feb 2020. |
25 Sep 2018: Real Wage Growth Is Actually Falling. Forbes.
| 14 Aug 2018: Stagnating salaries: Real US wages are essentially back at 1974 levels, Pew reports. Daniel B. Kline. USA Today. |
In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation. 10 Aug 2018. Washington Post.
| 7 Aug 2018: For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Pew Research Center. |
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
US has stingiest minimum wage
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2 Jul 2019: There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." Dec. 29, 2017. Washington Post. Chart below is from the article.
Chart below. USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years.
Source. See also: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [189].
- 2020 State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states. [190][191].]]
US federal minimum wage timeline below. Top line is adjusted for inflation. Middle class prosperity peaked under Truman and Roosevelt in the 1950s due to steep progressive taxation where the middle class paid less. And the minimum wage was increased. That also pushed up middle class wages.
US has high wealth inequality
See the median wealth by country chart:
Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - 2019 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($107,004) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($65,904). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.
Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [192]. See chart below. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.? Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.
- Middle class wealth collapsing. [193]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2019 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars1 Switzerland 227,891 2 Australia 181,361 3 Iceland 165,961 4 Hong Kong 146,887 5 Luxembourg 139,789 6 Belgium 117,093 7 New Zealand 116,433 8 Japan 110,408 9 Canada 107,004 10 Ireland 104,842 11 France 101,942 12 United Kingdom 97,452 13 Singapore 96,967 14 Spain 95,360 15 Austria 94,070 16 Italy 91,889 17 Malta 76,016 18 South Korea 72,198 19 Norway 70,627 20 Taiwan 70,191 21 Qatar 69,671 22 United States 65,904 23 Denmark 58,784 -
US has high income inequality
Timeline below of real (inflation-adjusted) average US household income by quintile and top 5 percent in 2018 dollars. Note that the bottom 60% of households (bottom 3 quintiles) have had little improvement in real income. While the top 20%, and especially the top 5 percent, have had large, even exceptional, increases in real income.
Median income by country charts:
- Median GDP per capita: how much does the typical person earn in different countries? A look at Global Inequality - the Giving What We Can Blog. By Hauke Hillebrandt. 25 May 2016
- The World Bank’s Poverty Statistics Lack Median Income Data, So We Filled In the Gap Ourselves — Download Available. February 6, 2016. Anna Diofasi and Nancy Birdsall. Center for Global Development.
- Above chart. United States leads in income inequality, and lack of economic mobility. Increasing income inequality on the horizontal axis. Increasing economic immobility on the vertical axis. Note the Scandinavian countries on the bottom left.
26 Jul 2018: As Workers' Wages Continue to Fall Under Trump, Analysis Shows CEO Pay Is Way Higher Than Typically Reported. Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.
17 Jul 2018: Bernie Sanders: Trump’s economy is great for billionaires, not for working families. By Bernie Sanders. USA Today. 17 Jul 2018: If the economy is 'roaring', why are so many Americans still struggling? Bernie Sanders. The Guardian.
Real wages are not just flat, they are falling. 15 Jun 2018. Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam. Washington Post.
| Workers’ wages fall after Republican tax cuts. 13 Jun 2018. Tax cuts went mostly to the rich. Should have gone mostly to the middle class who would have had more money free to plow back into the economy. For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling. June 15, 2018. Washington Post. [194][195][196]. |
Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:
17 Dec 2017: A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. New York Times.
1 Jul 2016: Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."
- Commons: Category: Median income. Charts, graphs, maps
Massive US household debt
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.
Total Household Debt by Type:
- Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.
Massive US medical debt
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Progressive Republicans:
President Eisenhower. 1953
Wikipedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower. President: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961.
Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
President Eisenhower followed progressives like President Roosevelt. Roosevelt and General Eisenhower had worked together to crush the far-right of their day, the Nazis.
Quote source: Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act. June 16, 1933. "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
Unlike today's Republicans, Eisenhower understood that trickle-down economics does not work.
14 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Trickle-Down Economics Does Not Work.
12 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Disney Heiress Abigail Disney Says The Wealthy Don't Need Another Tax Break.
His 91% top marginal tax rate
Equaled prosperity for more
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [197][198].
Chart below. Highest marginal income tax rates over time.
- Above chart source. And: Source 2.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
- See above chart source. [199]. And source article.
Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.
- Above graph source. And: Source 2.
| 10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006." |
2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.
For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation
President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
More sources: [200]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.
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