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Salvatore Babones, Truthout: ''There are places in the world where the majority of people are doomed to live no better than their parents and grandparents did. Places where a poor child from the slums might as well dream of being an astronaut as dream of having a decent middle-class job. Places where the children of the rich get even richer while the children of the poor stay poor. Places like Burma and Kenya and the United States.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9595-not-news-america-is-no-longer-the-land-of-opportunity

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Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early '90s, Fed Says

By Binyamin Appelbaum

The recent financial crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than they had in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31551.htm

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Economic Cliff Ahead
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul809.html



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