Tag: inequality

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.

We ought to see their struggle as “a strike for democracy – against the plans of a tiny clique of billionaires to unilaterally impose their vision for the world.”

“Inequality is not inevitable,” the report says, “it’s a political choice.” 

Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality?

“Addressing climate change effectively and justly requires us to transform the unjust social and economic systems that gave us climate change in the first place.”

The bad news is that poverty still exceeds the 11.3 percent rate of 2000 and far too many people are poor in a country that is so rich.

What happened for many years to gays on Fire Island seems like a nightmare of another time – and it was.

Not everyone is struggling. In fact, some actually benefit economically from these extreme weather events.

Women talk about gender, racial and economic justice. But anti-war messaging is still missing from the resistance movement – and there can be no justice without peace.

DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.