Where Is the Middle Class? A friend recently got me curious to learn more about the economic diversity of the people represented in wealth distribution charts that we often reference. Here, we start to add context for who's included in these groups. Terms like "the bottom 50%
Understanding the Money Cycle The data presented below was gathered in our research chat, which you can see published here, where we explore the ways in which our economic and financial systems are currently designed, specifically digging into the typical fee structures and required payments to be a "part
The belief in the American Dream, the promise that hard work leads to prosperity, is collapsing across political lines. Recent polling shows only 27% of Americans still believe it holds true, down from 50% in 2010. This isn't just perception: people born in 1970 had a 90% chance
Workers create products and services → Workers are also the consumers who must buy those products → Consumer spending drives 70% of GDP → But workers' wages are suppressed to maximize returns to capital → So workers can't afford what they create → Which eventually undermines the whole system.
If you haven't been following the news lately, here's something you should know... Since January 2025: * Over 8,000 government web pages have been removed or modified. * The Centers for Disease Control took down more than 3,000 pages. * The Census Bureau removed about 3,000
For decades, we've passed the hot potato of who's to blame for the negative affects of our supply and demand capitalist policies. Meanwhile, our environment, our infrastructure, and our economic leverage are taking the brunt of the impact. We act as if it is our duty
Remember When We All Watched the Same News? Many of us are old enough to remember sitting down at the dinner table after the local news and arguing about what we saw. It didn’t matter if we agreed — we were arguing about the same thing. We all had a