Tag: billionaires
Profiteering off the pandemic
Big corporations and major investors are doing fine. Billionaires are doing better than ever. But most Americans are sinking fast.
U.S. billionaire wealth surges as COVID-19 pandemic worsens
As percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980.
Blaming ‘flawed and sexist’ capitalist system, Oxfam report finds 2,153 billionaires...
“Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.”
‘Ten year challenge’ for 400 wealthiest Americans shows fortunes doubled since...
"Here's the thing: the way the system is set up, we're headed for another decade of this."
The crass warfare of billionaires against Sanders and Warren
The fight happening now for the Democratic presidential nomination largely amounts to class warfare.
Billionaires are a sign of economic failure
he New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what...
Let House scrutiny re-brand Trump: Worst of the worst of crony...
If Trump is not made stand-in for heartless Robber Barons, progressives will have squandered our greatest opportunity to name this era: Trump’s Age of Corruption.
Putting billionaires in their place
Counting up the number of billionaires in a nation can give us a vivid anecdotal sense of how concentrated a nation’s wealth has become.
More billionaire presidential candidates: A bitter pill
The rich determine which bitter pill to shove down the throats of the 99 percent.
Billionaires made more money in 2017 than any other year in...
Meanwhile, 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty and "5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty."
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Exposure to synthetic chemicals in food poses health impacts, new study reports
Their conclusion: a need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.
The most valuable lesson Democrats could actually learn from Biden
Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.
When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Food giants’ climate plans lack credibility, new report finds
The annual report, which analyzed the climate strategies of five of the world’s top 10 food and agriculture corporations, is the latest in a slew of reports that show how the largest food companies are failing to tackle their environmental impacts.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.