Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Tag: inequality

Do you need luck to get really rich?

A little ruthlessness, Elon reminds us, can go a long way.

The secret to the GOP’s assault on your rights

This is not a battle of left vs. right. It is a battle between democracy and autocracy.

How greedy corporations fuel inflation

“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."

Keeping workers poor is bad for business

At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.

Report warns taxpayer money is fueling ‘pandemic greed grab’ by US...

Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year.

White makes ‘far’ right!!

Hey, Captain Ron, did you forget your ancestral roots? Shame on you!!!

The height of folly: Safeboxes in the sky

Can’t our society find something better to do than give billionaires playpens over a quarter-mile up?

Bezos praises Manchin for blocking Biden’s corporate tax hike

"Biden's plan was to make billionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes, and use that money to help families," said one critic. "Of course a billionaire owner of a $1.1 trillion corporation doesn't like that."

America unmasked

Did the long pandemic spawn a new kind of repression?

“Debt shaming” has dampened democracy

As crucial steps to reduce income inequality, we need to reject “debt shaming” and insist on cancelation of student debt.

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The dark side of ecotourism: When green travel exploits people and the planet

As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, the industry may be doing more harm than good.
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Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

FCC faces backlash over push to lift media ownership limits amid threats to local...

Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.