Tag: poor
The capitalist manifesto: Let poor people die
Market-happy illusionists keep spouting nonsense about a healthy economy built on today's capitalism.
After long career bailing out big banks, Obama Treasury Secretary Tim...
"Your economy, rigged to redistribute wealth to the top."
2018 update: More evidence that half of Americans are in or...
By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.
50 years after MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign, 2,500+ arrested over 6...
"We’ve invited the people to speak for themselves, because I think it’s time for a revolution."
House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...
"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."
Missing in action
The poor remain missing in action in our American world, but not in my mind. Not in me.
Infographic: Why normal people can’t afford a house
The U.S. is better at subsidizing wealthy people than low-income people.
Goons in Gucci
The richest, most powerful, most privileged people in our land are intentionally savaging the well-being of America's majority and aggressively suppressing the democratic rights that make America, America.
Today’s Poor People’s Campaign: Too important not to criticize
Provided, of course, today’s PPC attacks the bipartisan disease.
POPULAR
Make corporate complicity unprofitable: Gen Z campaign launches boycott of companies tied to ICE
As Trump intensifies immigration crackdowns, a new boycott movement targets the corporations supplying ICE with infrastructure, technology, and access to consumers.
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.
Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?
A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure.
How accent discrimination reinforces America’s deepest divides
The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.