Tag: poor

As one of the most unequal nations in the entire world, America is also, in many ways, one of the most poverty-stricken.

We just have to hope Americans have learned about the greed and deception of that arena full of super-rich.

Instead of an “economic boom,” most Americans are experiencing declines in all these dimensions of their lives.

Corporations have, in effect, become inequality’s single most powerful engine. We need to slow that engine down.

But if the FEMA response to recent disasters is any indication, storm victims could face barriers in securing federal aid – especially if they're not white.

In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.

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.

We evolved to be connected to nature and to one another, but our exploitative global economy is severing those relations.

Market-happy illusionists keep spouting nonsense about a healthy economy built on today's capitalism.

"Your economy, rigged to redistribute wealth to the top."