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ap oil and the beginning of the middle-class decline. The Iranian Revolution in 1979, with more resultant oil instability, combined with the rise of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution at home, accelerated the long and painful contraction of the middle class. Cuts in corporate taxes, stagnant worker wage gro
il instability, combined with the rise of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution at home, accelerated th
nce 1979. to. The 1% also takes home 20% of the income. This figure is the most since the 1920s era of laissez faire government (under Republicans Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover). 11. The super-rich An% of America, such as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, take home a whopping 6% of the nati
sed that there is little to nothing left for those at the bottom. Today's EFTA00695064 Republicans are still selling trickle-down economics of the Reagan era. Not because they worked, but because it is a message that still sells to the unenlightened, especially when there are others to blame; welfare
ap oil and the beginning of the middle-class decline. The Iranian Revolution in 1979, with more resultant oil instability, combined with the rise of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution at home, accelerated the long and painful contraction of the middle class. Cuts in corporate taxes, stagnant worker wage gr
since 1979. 7. The 1% also takes home 20% of the income. This figure is the most since the 1920s era of laissez faire government (under Republicans Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover). 8. The top 196 of America owns so% of investment assets (stocks, bonds, mutual funds). The poorest half of A
a vigorous and even costly policy abroad. The increases in defense spending and global activism that began under Jimmy Carter and accelerated under Ronald Reagan took place when the country was suffering from an unprecedented bout of "stagflation." Nor was America any less war-weary after a decade in Vietnam
. The American public had gone from refusing to play any role in Europe to insisting on supporting Britain to the fullest, even at the risk of war. Reagan played a similar role in his campaign for the presidency, warning of the dangers of American weakness just a handful of years after Vietnam. So fa
k. In the aftermath of World War EFTA00684275 I, when the American public soured on overseas involvement, a series of Republican presidents, from Warren Harding to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, tried to give the public what it wanted. In the process, they reinforced and hardened public opposition to o
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