Wall Street
Today the average college grad leaves school with just over $24,000 in debt, an amount that eats up $276 every month if you stretch the payments out over ten years and it’s a government loan with a 6.8 percent interest rate. Of course, one out of five students also carries more costly private loans...
10/27/2011
News/Resource
All together, the finance sector is the top spender on lobbying between the years of 1998 and 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, having poured $4,631,844,938 into lobbyists’ pockets. $230,200,953 of that came directly from the five banks surveyed here.
And what did they...
10/21/2011
News/Resource
Leila Khan is a beautiful, enterprising immigrant, struggling to find her purpose in a tumultuous America. Her Wall Street diner job introduces her to banker, Roderick Morgan – a haunted alcoholic controlled by his ruthless uncle, bank mogul Jack Morgan. As Leila and Roderick’s flirtations deepen...
10/21/2011
Publication
Draut argues that #ows is an understandable product of a hostile economic environment.
10/14/2011
Video
Economic inequality – the meta concern of the Wall Street protesters – is not an issue that typically gets much traction in American politics. Anger at the Haves tends to surge when times are tough, only to melt away when former Have Nots are again flush enough to go back to the mall.
A year ago,...
10/14/2011
News/Resource
A review of early Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber’s latest book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
It is growing daily more apparent that the current economic recession is not a run-of-the-mill downturn or cyclical lag in consumer demand. This recession is different from the booms and...
10/14/2011
News/Resource
A few decades ago, it also would have been difficult to imagine how such a Kol Nidre service could have come together. Like Occupy Wall Street and its growing number of spin-offs, these events happen because of the extensive use of social media by savvy organizers who don’t need or seek the...
10/13/2011
News/Resource
The AFL-CIO president's quiet visit to the occupation shows how much labor has changed.
Early last Friday morning, as the Occupy Wall Street protesters were just uncurling from their sleeping bags, I went downtown for a walkthrough of their campsite at Zuccotti Park, now also known as Liberty Plaza...
10/12/2011
News/Resource
WHERE:
Strand Books
828 Broadway New York, NY
Black Tuesday captures the romance and desperation of New York on the cusp of the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. From the beleaguered immigrant community of the Lower East Side to the feral pit of Wall Street to the alluring glitter of...
10/11/2011
Event
