Tag: income inequality
Yes, deniers, millions of Americans are among the poorest people in...
Why is it so hard for people with wealth and power to admit all this?
No, big corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks to create jobs
The breaks seldom pay for themselves — and put employees of local businesses out of work.
STUDY: US lawmakers are looting America
The new tax overhaul, passed by the Senate yesterday, will only exacerbate the problem.
Inequality out of control: The average 1% household made over $2.5...
With inequality ripping us apart, and with few of our national leaders willing or able to confront the problem, we may never again be an equitable and functional society.
One year later: The political cancer metastasizes
America was never what it had purported to be.
Extreme poverty cut in half? Only in the minds of the...
The median wealth of the world's adults is $2,222, down from $3,248 at the end of 2007.
Manufacturing dissent – The new culture war
The ruling class is laughing and the working class is ensnared in what I would call Societal Autoimmune Disorder (S.A.D.).
Working stiffs: Stop celebrating the super rich!!!
In this new Gilded Age of our current Military Industrial Empire the amount of wealth for many individuals is astounding.
Companies can either make things or make CEOs rich
Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.
A tax on Wall Street trading is the best solution to...
This is a great example of a clearly defined policy that will directly reverse some of the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades.
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It’s time: Boycott America
Name-and-shame tactics don’t work with leaders who have no shame. Grab Trump by the wallet—it’s the only language he understands.
Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-communist zealots in Miami don’t like it
But just how committed is Trump to fighting communism in Latin America at this particular moment—in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua?
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.
Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children—new UN report
The renewed bombing follows repeated violations of the ceasefire terms by Israel.