Tag: inequality

"The responsibility to cut carbon emissions must be shouldered by the highest-income countries, and by the most privileged social groups in certain emerging and developing nations."

"For too long, we have turned to those with wealth and power to solve our most pressing social problems."

Ordinary workers now have to work centuries — or even millennia — to make what their CEOs make in a year.

Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act.

by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel On June 30, 2016, an auto-parts magnate received the kind of news anyone would dread: The...

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.

Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.

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.

"This is about politicians catching up to where Americans have been."

This inequality is unsustainable. It’s literally tearing America apart.