Tag: inequality

America’s top earners will be rushing to maximize their 2016 income if Democrats gain a sweep in November. But what happens next will be what really matters.

This presidential season has exposed the growing revolt against business as usual.

The fires of this political movement to force this government to bring an end to this inequality have been ignited. We’ll see if those flames can be fanned and this movement sustained.

Corporate executives are making way more money that anybody reports.

There has been extensive national debates over Kaepernick’s actions in the past week, and the quarterback has been working to get the conversation back on track.

Fatal inequality will continue to terrorize this nation until we genuinely commit to confronting racism and gun violence.

"I do not know many African American men who do not have a very similar story to tell, no matter their profession."

The accomplishments of the freedom struggle, anti-lynching campaigns, the civil-rights movement are not insignificant. But that doesn’t change the white-supremacist roots and contemporary reality of the United States.

It will take years of work to repair the economic damage caused by these levels of inequality.

All these steps would allow families to invest in their own futures – which is the surest way out of poverty. All of us benefit when everyone has the opportunity to accumulate wealth.