Tag: income inequality
America’s richest 2% made more money in 2017 than the cost...
The richest 2-5%, those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million, accumulated enough wealth in 2017 to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES.
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.
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Senate approves record Pentagon budget as Democrats help advance Trump’s defense agenda
Bipartisan vote sends $900 billion military bill to Trump’s desk amid war powers concerns and domestic cuts.
Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
How the charter school industry’s newest scheme could be ‘the death of public schools’
A charter school “shitstorm” in Florida shows how the industry intends to take over public education.
3 in 4 Republicans under 45 say they prefer US funded health care over...
New IMEU and YouGov polling shows majorities of Republican voters, especially younger adults, favor redirecting taxpayer dollars from Israel to domestic health care as skepticism grows over long-term military funding.
House moderates move to force vote as ACA tax credits near expiration
Four Republicans join Democrats in discharge petition amid looming premium hikes for millions.