Thom's blog
The Middle Class Is Shrinking
The middle class is shrinking in Colorado & across U.S. as incomes fall. Middle-income households in metro Denver shrank from 58 percent of the population in 2000 to 53 percent in 2014, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. That shrinkage didn’t come primarily from households moving into higher income brackets, but rather from more households moving into lower-income ones. “We still have a lot of people who are middle income. But I can understand the reason for concern,” said Gary Horvath, a Broomfield economist. “The recovery, in terms of income, hasn’t been strong.” Metro Denver’s share of upper-income households increased 1 percentage point to 25 percent, while lower-income households rose 4 percentage points to 22 percent, according to Pew. The trend toward a smaller middle class is a national one and has been underway for four decades, but sluggish economic growth has exacerbated it. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.)
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Environmental Threat of TTIP Exposed (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Be sure to check out our newest video: RESTORATION - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners / Visit GreenWorldRising.org to check out all the videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Big Picture Rumble: - Charles Sauer, The Market Institute - Danielle Blevins, Freelance Reporter - Neil McCabe, Breitbart
Best of the Rest: Meet The Dark Snow Project - Professor Jason E. Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
PLUS, The Environmental Threat of TTIP Exposed - Ben Beachy, Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Weirdest Zika Relationship - Ranger Eric Powers, North Hempstead TV - Off The Trail |
Wednesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Last Chance to Defeat the Dark Act- Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association
Hour Two: Why Are Libertarians Mostly Men?
Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Does BREXIT Signify the End of Globalization?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
GOP Focus on Heat From Porn Not Climate Change?
Billions of Gallons of Fracking Waste Into Gulf?
Has Big Ag Bought Another Victory?
Panel: How Trump Will make the 1% Wealthier?
Panel: Is the Revolution Over or About To Get Bigger?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 7/12/16: Bernie’s With Her
Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses Bernie’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the bizarre GOP platform which endorses things like gay conversion therapy, and Trump’s tax plan for the rich. Thom discusses how federal officials approved massive fracking in the Gulf of Mexico starting in 2010 with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Patrick Sullivan and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how Democrats are trying to stop the climate from melting down while Republicans are having a meltdown over pornography.
Does Rick Scott Want To Destroy Florida's Waterways?
Activist Showers Congress In Cash Over The DARK Act! (W/Guest: Alexis Baden-Mayer)
Did Fox So-Called News Write The Republican Party Platform?
Prejudice + Power = Racism.
Caller: The Dallas Cops Wouldn't Have Taken Out A White Guy...
Democrats: Don't Make The Perfect The Enemy Of The Good!
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