I see an economic diasater coming...

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It seems that Bill Moyers has some clear insights into whats happening in the USA  today.http://billmoyers.com/2013/05/29/u-s-poverty-by-the-numbers/

Sad to say its only increasing(Poverty).triffid

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People who would have been in poverty if not for Social Security, 2012: 61.8 million (program kept 15.3 million people out of poverty)

People in the US experiencing poverty by age 65: Roughly half

Gender gap, 2012: Women 32 percent more likely to be poor than men

Gender gap, 2011: Women 34 percent more likely to be poor than men

Twice the poverty level (less than $46,042 for a family of four): 106 million people, more than 1 in 3 Americans

Jobs in the US paying less than $34,000 a year: 50 percent

Jobs in the US paying below the poverty line for a family of four, less than $23,000 annually: 25 percent

Poverty-level wages, 2011: 28 percent of workers

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This was on Bill Moyers last tv show.Too bad hes leaving the airways.For Now his website still continues.http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-climate-crusade/  triffid

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 Full Show: The Children's Climate Crusade
January 1, 2015
The very agencies created to protect our environment have been hijacked by the polluting industries they were meant to regulate. It may just turn out that the judicial system, our children and their children will save us from ourselves.
The new legal framework for this crusade against global warming is called atmospheric trust litigation. It takes the fate of the Earth into the courts, arguing that the planet's atmosphere – its air, water, land, plants and animals — are the responsibility of government, held in its trust to insure the survival of all generations to come. It's the strategy being used by Bill's recent guest, Kelsey Juliana, a co-plaintiff in a major lawsuit spearheaded by Our Children's Trust, that could force the state of Oregon to take a more aggressive stance against the carbon emissions.

It's the brainchild of Mary Christina Wood, a legal scholar who wrote the book, Nature's Trust, tracing this public trust doctrine all the way back to ancient Rome.

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Employee co-ops may be in the future for the USA.Heres what they have done for Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956 by graduates of a local technical college. Its first product was paraffin heaters. It is the tenth-largest Spanish company in terms of asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country. At the end of 2013, it employed 74,061 people in 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail and knowledge.[1]

Mondragon cooperatives operate in accordance with Statement on the Co-operative Identity maintained by the International Co-operative Alliance.