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Young College Graduates Are $3,200 Poorer Than They Were In 2000: EPI

Bonnie Kavoussi | Huffington Post | April 4, 2013

Recent college graduates trying to make it on their own have truly been living through a lost decade. Read More »

A Third Of Americans Delinquent On Debt

Hadley Malcolm | USA Today | July 29, 2014

More than a third of the country is in trouble when it comes to paying debts on time; 35% of Americans have debt in collections, according to a study out Tuesday from the Urban Institute, which analyzed the credit files of 7 million Americans...

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: We're Headed For Oligarchy

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | April 25, 2014

In a recent interview at the Economic Policy Institute, Nobel Prize-Winning economist and MIT professor Robert Solow riffed on the political effects of increasing inequality and concentration of wealth at the very top. "If that kind of concentration of wealth continues, then we get to be more and more an oligarchical country, a country that's run from the top," he said.

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