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By Sean Luechtefeld on 10/24/2011 @ 12:00 PM

Tags: Recommended Reading

Here’s your roundup of last week’s top links from around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.

Stimulating Job Creation
I was hoping for a clever pun that drew on coffee and job creation, but ‘stimulating’ was the best I could do. In a New York Times Opinion piece, Joe Nocera writes about the next big job creation idea coming from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. His plan: partner with CDFIs and have his 7,000-or-so bean bars serve as a place where anyone can make donations to small businesses. The plan will be rolled out on November 1, and you can read more about it here.

Numbers to #Occupy Your Mind
See what I did there? Yeah…at least I tried. The folks at Economic Populist shared yesterday some fodder to fuel the #OccupyWallStreet fire. It turns out that those pesky protestors have a legitimate claim: not only are there fewer jobs, but the size of the median paycheck decreased 1.2% in 2010 over the previous year. Likewise, data shows that the 1% really are getting richer (by a lot), while the rest of us…well, we’re here. Read the full article here.

A Graph Nine Miles Long
The folks at the Campaign for America’s Future shared a graph from Jared Bernstein that illustrates how much more the 99% would pay compared to how much less the 1% would pay under Herman Cain’s proposed 9-9-9 plan. NOTE: If you have a family history of arthritis, do not click this link…you might be scrolling for days.

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