“If you work hard in America, you can get ahead. Capitalism is the only system that can lift people out of poverty” …Except that productivity has steadily increased in the US for decades (hard work), while real wages have been stagnant since the 1970s (not getting ahead), and the cost of living has increased dramatically…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
Right-wingers in the United States argue that providing welfare …
Right-wingers in the United States argue that providing welfare to poorer citizens constitutes a greater expansion of government which undermines the innate human spirit that drives people to achieve and better themselves by giving them “handouts”. But they fail to explain how being paid minimum wage as a cashier at Walmart and struggling to keep…