In a sign of the fading American Dream, 92 percent of children born in 1940 earned more than their parents, but only half of those born in 1984 can say the same, researchers said Monday. Greater inequality in the distribution of growth is largely to blame, said the findings in the US journal Science. "Children's prospects of earning more than their parents have faded over the past half century in the United States," said the study, led by Raj Chetty of Stanford University. "Absolute income mobility has fallen across the entire income distribution, with the largest declines for families in the middle class."
Since little data exists linking children to their parents in terms of economic performance, researchers combined US census data with tax records, adjusting for inflation and other confounding variables. They found the sharpest declines in income in the industrial Midwest, including states like Indiana and Illinois. "The smallest declines occurred in states such as Massachusetts, New York and Montana," said the study.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:11PM
At the heart of the problem is Capitalism (the concentration of wealth among non-producers).
Bernie is not an Anti-Capitalist.
Neither does Bernie have a strong position supporting the collective ownership of the means of production by the workers e.g. no stated support for a USAian version of Italy's Marcora Law.
Bernie politics isn't even as committed to the 99 Percent as FDR's let's-not-allow-the-workers-to-get-too-pissed-off (still Capitalist) position.
Bernie is an improvement over Neoliberal Hillary (O'Bummer's 3rd term) and zero-experience-in-government, privatize-everything, make-lots-of-empty-promises, screw-the-workers Trump, but, at best, Bernie is a baby step in the right direction.
The Socialist Party Platform Of 1936 Shows How Far Away From "Socialist" Bernie Sanders Is [wsws.org]
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Running (again) in 2016 on the Socialist Equality Party ticket was Jerry White [1] [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org]
[1] Scroll up to Section 2.5 for Gloria La Riva.
(That page is a cache with a bit of markup; if you click anything, that will load a different page.)
Quickie description of SEP [2] [uselections.com]
On the Peace and Freedom Party ticket (and other parties' tickets) was Gloria La Riva.
Quickie description of P&F [2] [uselections.com]
Summary Platform of the Peace and Freedom Party [peaceandfreedom.org]
[2] Same page
Those are the 2 most worker-oriented individuals/parties that I have identified in presidential politics in the recent election cycle.
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In between those folks and Bernie's platform is Dr. Stein.
The 2016 Green Party Platform Includes Some Anti-Capitalism Window Dressing [gp.org] (orig) [gp.org]
Jill Stein's Platform Is More Viable Than Bernie's [dissidentvoice.org]
...but Jill Stein's Pro-Working Class, Anti-Imperialist Platform Doesn't Stand A Chance With Uninformed USAian Voters (A Pre-Mortem) [counterpunch.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]