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Everyone is trying to figure out how to survive in many or failing

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The Laura Flanders show counterspin and this is hell

But there are other ways to measure

Discontent beyond polls and election results

We saw the first wave of discontent with Obama's role with the emergence of the Occupy movement in

2011 and then the eruption of black lives matter in the summer of 2014

Both were products of the widening gap of inequality in the United States

That inequality was at the heart of the Occupy movement and its popularization of class inequality in the US through the slogan of the 99%

versus the 1%

But this inequality was also important in how we understand the emergence of black lives matter

Black Americans of course took the blunt of the economic crisis in 2007 and 2008

It was in part how we understand the deep wells of support that existed for Obama and his campaign's ability to tap into the anger

with the federal government's

Project disregard for what was happening in black communities

We cannot understand for example the social catastrophe happening across black Chicago where there will be 700

homicides in that city the vast majority of which affect young black people you cannot understand that social

Catastrophe without understanding the persisting effects of the economic crisis that never really ended in many black communities

Chicago has the third highest black unemployment rate of any major city in this country

It has the third highest poverty rate of a large city in the United States

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