Spreading a little alarm and despondency....

A new report has found something the Occupy Wall Street-ers are probably interested in: Over the last thirty years, after-tax, adjusted for inflation income grew 275 percent for the top one percent of income earners in the US. For the other 99? Income has grown a modest 65 percent over the same period

Public universities charged US students, on average, $8,244 this year. That’s up 8.3 percent. It’s also more than double the rate of inflation.

Poverty rate reshaping suburbs

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