Gallup released a poll Thursday showing that overall stock ownership among US adults remains 8 percentage points below its pre-crisis level. But even as the crisis appears to have scared many Americans away from owning stocks, there are two demographic subgroups where ownership has held firm: Adults aged 65 and older and those with an annual household income of $100,000 or more.
Top congressional Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Bernie Sanders, held a press conference earlier today to officially introduce their "Fight For $15" minimum wage legislation, dubbed the Raise the Wage Act. Among other things, the bill primarily serves to more than double the federal minimum wage from it's current level of $7.25 to $15 by 2024.
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Hours after the devastating terror attack in Manchester, England, and following UK PM Theresa May's announcement of quasi-martial-law on the streets of Britain, Nigel Farage follows yesterday's BBC anchor's comments and asks "what is our government actually gonna do?"
"Get used to it"...
Via Japan Subculture Research Center,
Japan is getting serious about gender equality - and there were absolutely no bribes paid by Japan to win the right to host the 2020 Olympics - and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is under control. Decide for yourself which of these three statements is the most untrue.