To get to real info, not fake news, you have to

read older documentaries. The plight of 300 million

living a broken American dream screams out when

looking at this fine book published in 2001. 

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The takeaways: 

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1. America didn't just collapse. 100 million have lived in subsistence wages since 1900. Now 100 million more are facing poverty.

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2. Only 30% of all workers, about 45 million were at minimum wage in 2000. Compared to 50%, about 80 million in 2019 B.C. before Covid. That means as the population increased from 281 million to 335 million, B.C., 35 million MORE slipped into POVERTY over the last 20 years. Today 100 million are in poverty, quickly going to 200 million as technology takes 50 million jobs.

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3. We are all growing much poorer because nobody is setting economic policy that gets us a good living for a hard days work. In the book minimum wage (that she illustrates by living it) you can't live on, was $7.50 an hour, (in 1998!) and an apartment was $400/month. 20 years later, many States are still there! PA, ID, OK, KS, KY, LA, MISS, NC, ND, TN, TX, UT, VA, WS, WY, are ALL $7.25/hr, which is the Federal Minimum Wage. They haven't BUDGED IN 20 years. But an apartment is now $800/month. So 300 million not in the elite wealth class just got 50% poorer in two short decades. This is why we have reached total inequality, and why I wrote the RTDNOW plan, so we can all represent ourselves.

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4. Bathroom breaks were not law until 1998. Wow. If you don't think we need to all sign RTDNOW 300 million as 1 to make it happen, you should think again because this shows our government DOES NOT work for 300 million you's. We need a new RTDNOW America now. Its what Bernie (and Andrew Yang) was saying without a way to pay for it, without a plan, without a way to still let capitalism thrive. My plan figured all this out. Please read it.