Tag: inequality
A ‘Poor People’s Moral Budget’ because ‘everybody has the right to...
"For too long, we have turned to those with wealth and power to solve our most pressing social problems."
CEOs got an $800k raise last year. Did you?
Ordinary workers now have to work centuries — or even millennia — to make what their CEOs make in a year.
Retail workers nationwide are united for respect
Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act.
The IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go...
by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel
On June 30, 2016, an auto-parts magnate received the kind of news anyone would dread: The...
The ‘scarcity mindset’ and the growing risks of inequality
The only solution, both to alleviating the underlying problem of inequality and countering the energized far right it has produced in so many places appears to be for the left to counter it with a more positive populism of its own.
3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy
Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.
Survival of the richest
Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.
Tax the rich? Most Americans think it’s a great idea
"This is about politicians catching up to where Americans have been."
America’s widening inequality of place
This inequality is unsustainable. It’s literally tearing America apart.
Egalitarians gain ground in Washington
They have forced onto the nation’s political center stage initiatives for shearing the ultra rich down to democratic size that no major elected leader in America would have dared propose only a year ago.