Tag: rich
Three more reasons for wealth-deprived Americans to take to the streets
The rest of America has been left behind, but their voices are getting louder.
The oligarchs’ ‘guaranteed basic income’ scam
The longer the elites keep us in darkness with their ideological tricks and empty moralism, the longer we refuse to mobilize to break their grip on power, the worse it will get.
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
Forget the Dow Jones. How’s Doug Jones?
The stock market is owned by the rich. It tells you little about how ordinary Americans are doing.
Corporations are spending their tax cut – on themselves
Instead of creating jobs, big businesses are using their tax cut bonanza to hike stock value and CEO pay.
America is Disneyland
America is being eaten alive by corporate greed; and Disneyland has been taken over by Scrooge.
America’s richest 2% made more money in 2017 than the cost...
The richest 2-5%, those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million, accumulated enough wealth in 2017 to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES.
The Trump budget’s crushing cruelty
Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminate core anti-poverty programs that form the heart of the U.S. social safety net.
Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington
Why do these doofuses keep trying to shove such wildly unpopular measures down people's throats?
No, big corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks to create jobs
The breaks seldom pay for themselves — and put employees of local businesses out of work.
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Trump has created speech and thought crimes with NSPM-7 and Pam Bondi is ready...
How NSPM-7 and a DOJ directive lay the groundwork for criminalizing dissent and protected speech
Netanyahu ties Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre to Australia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood
As Australia mourned a deadly antisemitic attack that killed 16 people, critics accused the Israeli prime minister of exploiting tragedy to attack Palestinian self-determination.
The Trump corollary
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Madur
EPA proposes to double amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under Trump administration
Is this change part of a broader reassessment of how the agency evaluates cancer risks from chemicals?
Report: Proposed EPA cuts further imperil environmental protections in cash-strapped states
As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.