Monday, June 5, 2023

Tag: inequality

Garbage in, garbage CEO windfalls out

‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.

Working longer ‘not a viable solution’ to US retirement crisis, economists...

Instead of forcing aging employees to delay retirement, lawmakers should ensure that workers have "access to jobs that pay fair wages and provide solid benefits during their prime working years," argues a new report.

The two decades that created our world’s first mass middle class

If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.

‘We are not taxing the very wealthy enough’: runaway inequality about...

"Americans overwhelmingly prefer raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and huge corporations to making cuts to critical programs like healthcare, medical research, and infrastructure," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Who gets to talk about how police need to change?

A FAIR study of NYT coverage from George Floyd to Tyre Nichols

Where are the women CEOs? Should we care?

Women CEOs are becoming slightly less rare at large corporations. But simply replacing men with women at the top of the income scale won't lead to greater equity.

Are the women of your statehouse properly attired?

Instead of fixing their image by legislating responsibly, some state lawmakers say a dress code will suffice — for women, of course.

Must larceny always overpower honesty?

In deeply unequal societies, the thieving always thrive.

A ‘down’ year for our deepest pockets?

Billionaire fortunes have shriveled a bit over the past year. Billionaire power hasn’t.

Google’s stock climbed after it fired 12,000 employees—but what did they...

The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

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The Hard Hat Riot: A forgotten flashpoint in America’s culture wars

The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences—a seminal  moment in America’s culture wars.

The compulsion to intervene

Americans profess to care about the sacrifices of those who serve the nation in uniform. Why don’t we care enough to keep them from harm in the first place?

The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a ‘partisan standoff’

Did Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster?

Effort to give oil companies $97 million tax break in Louisiana halted

The original version of the bill introduced by Rep. Phillip DeVillier this spring would have cost the state $97 million over the next five years.

If pushing pardons for savage Jan. 6 seditionists isn’t unpardonable, what is?

Abusive pardons of the most serious crimes represent the great terrorist threat to self-government.