Coming off of the news of a new study saying that the U.S. is closer to an “oligarchy” than a democracy, academic Nick Carnes brings up his own research that might just explain why: We keep electing the rich to public office. Carnes writes, “just 3 percent [of members of Congress] came from the kinds of working-class jobs that the majority of Americans hold.”
Congressman Moneybags
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April 28, 2014 3:04 p.m.
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