Tag: inequality
A new way to equal pay for all women
There are a number of reasons for the pay gap that don’t have anything to do with qualifications or education.
Return of the railroad robber baron
If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs.
The charities making inequality worse
A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good – for themselves – at paycheck time.
The new trade agenda: Deals that promote equality rather than inequality
These are the sort of rules that we should be looking to include in future trade agreements.
Morbid inequality: Now just SIX men have as much wealth as...
As inequality ravages the American and world economies, denial grows right along with it.
Inherit the hypocrisy
Look how far we have actually fallen as a nation, as a culture for that matter.
A new rationalization for riches
Activists today are exploring encouraging pathways to a New Economy that sustains both our planet and greater equality.
The problem isn’t Trump, it’s bigger
While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.
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Private equity looted Connecticut hospitals, leaving patients and staff in crisis
A new Senate report reveals how private equity firms gutted community hospitals, endangered patients, and left taxpayers and workers to clean up the mess.
Texas Republicans push Trump-backed map to entrench power and silence voters of color
A rare mid-decade gerrymander in Texas, championed by Donald Trump, sparks lawsuits, protests, and warnings of a nationwide redistricting arms race.
When the term ‘genocide’ falls short
It is not enough for national governments to "recognize" a Palestinian state. It is time to compel Israel, via sanctions, diplomacy, and UN enforcement, to stop the killing and any talk of forced relocation.
The ultimate caricature
I suspect that, on returning to this eerie world of ours so many decades later, my mother might find it to be the ultimate caricature—a Trump presidency.
America may have invaded Iraq for its oil, but solar power is what Iraqis...
The vogue for solar is sweeping other areas of Iraq, too, such as Kurdistan, where the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is also increasingly committed to solar.