us middle class a thing of the past
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in new york city exists a true dichotomy: it is home to the richest and poorest people in the us people across america are barely making enough money to get by and about 3 million americans are on food stamps the occupy movement is protesting this inequality and jesse lagreca writer and activist joins us to help us find out what is happening to the middle class in americafollow liz on twitter at http:twittercomlizwahl

triangle returns
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you can help - sign the petitionhttp:salsademocracyinactionorgo677pdiaactionpublicaction_key=6266the tragedy of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire struck a nerve in the american people who demanded reforms which remade our industrial landscape and guaranteed the rights of workers today these rights have been wiped out in the race to the bottom in the global sweatshop economy where workers in the developing world toil 14 hours a dayseven days a week for wages just one tenth of what the triangle workers earned workers are again trapped and burned to death behind locked exit gates one hundred years ago the outrage over the triangle fireled to the rallying cry quotwho will protect the working girlquot where is that cry todaysign the petition http:salsademocracyinactionorgo677pdiaactionpublicaction_key=6266

exclusive - bill clinton extended interview pt 1 - the daily show with jon stewart - 110811 - video clip comedy central
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bill clinton talks about what the us can do to restore its competitive position in the world airdate - 110811

republican presidential debate media coverage - the colbert report - 2011-08-09 - video clip comedy central
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all the 2012 election media coverage until now has been bullst but everything from here out is crucial life-or-death stuff

conscious consumerism
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cnn039s kelly bowman reports on the retail trend of knowing and caring where your purchases come from

indecision 2012 - black to the future - newt gingrich039s timing - the daily show with jon stewart - 011212 - video clip comedy central
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wyatt cenac reports from baltimore on newt gingrich

saudi prince spending million dollars in one night on night club singer
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homeless interview: emotional interview with a homeless man addicted to morphine
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like us on facebook http:onfbmejjkcv6homeless interview with a homeless alcoholic man addicted to drugs peter has been living homeless on the street for 20 years due to his addictions to drugs and alcohol he became addicted to cocaine after he started injecting it and then addicted to heroin he is now homeless on the streets of toronto hoping to get off the drugs his freinds were homeless too until they all died due to their addictions peter does not want to die but fears his addictions will take him there this is a perfect example of why you do not take heroinpeter also sheds some light on the governments failure to deal with the issues of homelessness and drug abuse peter hates the police and has some interesting opinions about that toohttp:maketrekslikeimhomelesscom

why should i be happy
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governments and policy makers are concerned over our individual happiness this year the uk039s office of national statistics ons began compiling data for cameron039s so-called happiness index meanwhile at the launch of 039action for happiness039 members made a simple pledge: 039to try to create more happiness in the world around them through the way they approach their lives039 both assume that material advancement and economic development can039t buy you happiness this seems obvious or is it should happiness be our end goal is getting rich bad for our wellbeing should the government measure our happiness levels luke gittos a worldbytes reporter investigates the happiness agenda and talks to the director of action for happiness mark williamson and daniel ben ami author of ferraris for all

msm: occupy wall st arrests
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over the weekend during the occupy wall street protests in new york 80 protesters were arrested reportedly innocent protesters were maced and allegations flew over police brutality but where is the national coverage examining what activists allege was a crackdown on peaceful protesters where is the honest discussion and coverage of what these people are protesting in the first place and for missing that simple question in a prominent way when the protests and arrests are literally going on in your own backyard during a time of record inequality poverty and unemployment in this country

obama cuts cotton subsidies
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traidcraft took the message of the need to cut us cotton subsidies to the foreign office -- along with a giant cotton bud scissors and our very own obama watch this video to find out what happened

voter id laws - the colbert report - 2011-20-07 - video clip comedy central
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to safeguard against voter fraud and ensure that only the quotright peoplequot get elected republicans pass laws requiring voters to show government-issued photo ids

november 27 2012 - warren buffett amp carol loomis - the daily show with jon stewart - full episode video comedy central
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wal-mart employees surrender their front row black friday seats several parties receive blame for the twinkie

homeless interview with a homeless schizophrenic man
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like us on facebook : http:onfbmeiyadzt http:maketrekslikeimhomelesscomthis is our 3rd interview with people living homeless on the streets in this interview we hear the story of jason a homeless man struggling with schizophrenia and life on the streets jason talks about his experience going through the mental health system and how he believes this is a contributing factor to why he and others are homeless mental health is an overwhelming cause of homelessness around the world and jason paints his story for us in this compelling and intimate interviewjason039s main message is to the people out that there are too quick to judge people who are living on the street he says that we must treat the homeless as you would want to be treated and that we must not judge anyone until we know where they have come from and what they have been through quotyou never know what someone has been through out herequotshot with canon 5d opie039s eye kicking and spitting opieradio

abortion in the united states
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who are the women who obtain abortions in the united states why do they decide to end a pregnancy what are their social and economic circumstances this video was created by the guttmacher institute a leading research and policy organization on sexual and reproductive health http:guttmacherorg