Tag: inequality
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.
Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children...
To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.
Waging class war in comfort
Do the corporate chiefs now parading into the new Trump administration see the United States as just another enterprise – to fleece?
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Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip
As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands
DOGE cuts are killing Americans.
Federal judge slams Trump funding freeze, orders restoration of $176 million in environmental grants
Judge Gergel rules that the Trump administration violated congressional authority and the law by halting environmental and climate-related funding to cities and nonprofits across the U.S.