The Onion: Children are opposed to Health Care
July 20, 2009 7:36 am

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children's Healthcare

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GOP congressman has birther meltdown on Hardball
July 21, 2009 5:19 pm

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Jon Stewart Eviscerates The 'Birther' Movement
July 23, 2009 8:44 am

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CEOs Get One-Third of All Pay; Bank of America Uses Taxpayer $$ for Lobbying
July 23, 2009 2:01 pm

Think Progress points to a Wall Street Journal analysis that shows more than one-third of all pay in the U.S. now goes to executives and other highly-paid employees.

Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total U.S. pay in 2007, the latest figures available. The compensation numbers don't include incentive stock options, unexercised stock options, unvested restricted stock units and certain benefits.

The Wall Street Journal based its analysis on Social Security Administration data, which doesn't count billions of dollars more in pay that remain off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries.

Next, it turns out that Bank of America, which received $45 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout support, has spent more than $1.5 million lobbying on Capitol Hill.

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