The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Theres hardly a sentient grownup in this country who isnt aware that our economy is no longer working for vast numbers of everyday people. The rich and powerful have more wealth and power than ever. Everyone else keeps losing ground. Between 2009 and 2011 alone, income fell for 99 of americans, while it rose 11 for the top 1 . Since the worst of the financial crisis, that top 1 has captured the increases in income while
Melissa arizona is the latest state to refuse the exchange. We will bring on judge Andrew Napolitano to talk about this one. Lori Time Magazine announcing it candidate for person of the year. Wait until you hear who the candidates are. We will handicap the list with lou dobbs. Melissa stocks as we do every 15 minutes. Nicole petallides standing by. Stocks are losing sseam as House Speaker john boehner took the podium although they have recovered a bit. Nicole is difficult to monitor which way and guess which way the market will go as each headline process crosses, wereg the market being started around the unchanged line. And then you have people saying how the white house has had a change of tune. This is the type of environment we are in. As far as the big pitcher goes, the market is showing some resiliency considering we have had weeks after weeks of worries on the fiscal cliff, and yet were still pulling off some up arrows. Take a look at cold and macys. Both have come under some pr
Independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Theres hardly a sentient grownup in this country who isnt aware that our economy is no longer working for vast numbers of everyday people. The rich and powerful have more wealth and power than ever, everyone
Independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Theres hardly a sentient grownup in this country who isnt aware that our economy is no longer working for vast numbers of everyday people. The rich and powerful have more wealth and power than ever, everyone
Tonight lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to 9 an hour. But as the economist dean baker points out this week, if the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth, it would be over 16. 50 an hour today. We talk a lot about whats happening to the middle class, but the American Dreams really become a nightmare for the poor. Just about everyone has an opinion about the trouble were in. The blame game is at fever pitch in washington where obstinate republicans and hapless democrats once again play kickthecan with the problems we face. You wish they would just stop and listen to Richard Wolff. An attentive and systematic observer of capitalism and democracy, he taught economics for 25 years at the university of massachusetts and has published books such as democracy at work, occupy the economy, and capitalism hits the fan the Global Economic meltdown and what to do about