Friday, April 26, 2024

Students as teachers

Facing the world adults are wrecking.

How wealthy have our super wealthy become?

It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 28

Bar association calls for FBI probe into Kavanaugh, GOP governors call for delay in Kavanaugh vote, women react to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, and more.
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Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx woman died at...

Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Can anything bring CEO pay back down to Earth?

If we want to reverse soaring income inequality, curbing CEO pay has to be on the agenda.

2018 update: More evidence that half of Americans are in or near poverty

By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.
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The great land robbery: How federal policies dispossessed black Americans of millions of acres

This mass land dispossession is part of the pattern of institutional racism and discrimination that has contributed to the racial wealth gap in the United States.

California just legalized public banks. Will the rest of the nation follow suit?

The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities.
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Why we need to break up big tech

Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists.

Tennessee legislators strip $250.000 from Memphis for removing Confederate statues

Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted to strip away $250,000 from Memphis’ bicentennial celebration next year in retaliation for removing the historical monuments.