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O'Malley, Sanders, and Clinton emphasize the issue of wages, income disparities, rising inequality, and a shrinking middle class in the first Democratic debate of the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Clinton points out that "at the center of my campaign is how we're going to raise wages." Sanders says that "the middle class of this country for the last 40 years has been disappearing." Clinton points out her opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement because it does not help raise American wages. Clinton calls herself a progressive, but "a progressive who gets things done," and a moderate when it comes to getting things done. Sanders points to the "deep injustice, an economic injustice that threatens to tear our country apart, and it will not solve itself." Sanders points to the wealth concentration in the U.S. "with the top one tenth of 1 percent owning about as much as the bottom 90 percent, and 57% of all new income going to the top 1 percent." Clinton comes to Sanders defense on the issue saying "it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't run amok and doesn't cause the kind of inequities we're seeing in our economic system."

Focus on wages, income disparities, rising inequality, and a shrinking middle class in the first Democratic debate, for the U.S. 2016 presidential election

10/14/2015

O'Malley, Sanders and Clinton emphasize this issue in the debate.

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Jerry Muller on Capitalism and Inequality- preserving economic dynamism and maintaining protections for the middle class and the poor

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Muller points out that the family really matters and belonging to particular social, immigrant, ethnic and religious groups also makes a difference. Muller says having a clear eyed view shows protections are necessary for capitalism to work, yet also points out that in advanced capitalist societies muc of the framework for the protections such as unemployment insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Earned Income Credit, Affordable Care Act, are already in place. Individual societies and countries have to come up with their own solutions for economic protections. At the same time economic dynamism is critical part of vibrant democracy and capitalism. This requires human capital to be deployed in the best way possible. For individual countries this means increasing and preserving competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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Foreclosures: No End in Sight

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Professors at Princeton and the University of Chicago have demonstrated through their research that the lack of a comprehensive plan providing siginificant efforts to help homeowners has hurt the U.S. economy in the long run and delayed a recovery. With the middle class already reeling under one trillion dollars of student debt, high unemployment, stagnant wages, and retirees facing interest rates near zero, a weakened middle class was further affected by the lack of strong efforts on the homeowner side to balance aid to banks. This makes a consumer driven recovery that much more difficult and prolongs the pain.

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