Tag: inequality
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate...
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
The billionaires who couldn’t kick straight
America’s super rich and their European pals have failed spectacularly in a scheme to kill global football’s most egalitarian traditions.
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm—on inequality—that everyone can hear
We have to prevent our societies from returning to—our deeply unequal—business as usual.
Biden says he’ll take on inequality. Good! You need to hold...
As it was in the time of FDR and LBJ, power is redistributed only when those without it demand it.
Inequality gone viral: The obscene numbers
Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation.
Nearly two-thirds of older Black Americans can’t afford to live alone...
The scale of the economic insecurity we’ve measured among older adults of color shows how critical government support can be to people living near the financial edge.
Fear of falling
If the U.S. is to break its headlong rush into failed statehood, it must begin by addressing the legitimate demands of the people this country has failed from its very inception.
How the Supreme Court undermined the Black vote
Black Americans braved police violence at Selma and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court’s Shelby decision ushered in a new era of racially targeted voter suppression.
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.