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Economic Inequality Threatens Human Progress
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This concentration of money gives a few people way too much power over our economic and political systems. Oxfam's “Working for the Few” report says, “Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game.”
We know that economic inequality is a major issue in our nation, but the Oxfam report shows that this is a actually world-wide problem. Their calling on the attendees of the World Economic Forum to fight this inequality by enacting progressive taxation, instituting a living wage, and pushing governments to provide every citizen with universal healthcare. Oxfam says that it's time for the rich to pay their fair share, and that we must limit their power over government.
These are same arguments that many of us have made for decades, however, those at the top have fought hard to hold on to their power. For decades, the wealthy elite have continued to hoard money, and pushed lawmakers around the world to cut education, healthcare, and social services for the rest of us. The rich getting richer hasn't created more jobs or more prosperity, it made a very small number of people more powerful and left half of the world population out in the cold. It's time to turn these ideas into action, take our power back from those at the top, and ignite an era of progress.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... W.Va water - this is the problem with Libertarianism... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Need to Know: W.Va water - this is the problem with Libertarianism...
The Best of the Rest...
Want to eat healthy? Head to the Netherlands- Gawain Kripke, Oxfam.
PLUS, More proof we are standing in an extinction event
Daily Take: Why police beat an elderly man for jaywalking?
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Today's disastrous decision is a long step towards government of the CEOs, by the CEOs, and for the CEOs." -- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on hearing the 1/21/10 SCOTUS decision on Citizens United.
Hour One: Morality, not religion, should inform our political decisions - Dr. Alex McFarland 
Hour Two: Will the Supreme Court blow up unions?
Hour Three: Amend the constitution and legalize democracy- David Cobb, Move to Amend
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Plus, why police beat an elderly man for jaywalking...
Hour Two: Mayor blames TX quakes on fracking- Mayor Alan Brundrett, Azle, TX
Hour Three: Are we standing in an extinction event?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
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Thom's Poll
Will frequent earthquakes prompt more bans of fracking?
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Full Show 1/21/14: Supreme Court Poised to Destroy Public Unions
Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses the Supreme Court's plan to destroy public unions, the fourth anniversary of the Citizens United decision and Senator David Vitter's plan to become Louisiana's next governor. In tonight's special Tuesday edition of "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with artist, activist and businessman Andy Shallal who recently announced his candidacy for Mayor of DC.
The Thom Hartmann Program - January 21, 2014
Will the Supreme Court Blow up Unions?
The Only Way to Get Rich in America is to Already be Rich
Citizens United, 4 Years Later
Morality, Not Religion, Should Inform our Political Decisions
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