Tag: wealth equality
Will the left leverage today’s stock surge/unemployment gap shocker?
Fat cats play the system like hungry lions stalking prey. The progressive challenge is to educate more voters how our predatory system helps the rich get richer.
New poll shows two-thirds of voters support a wealth tax to...
“There is growing concern about the influence large corporations and wealthy individuals have on American elections.”
Global millionaires—just 0.9% of population—now own nearly half of world’s $361...
The bottom 56 percent of the population owns just 1.8 percent of the world’s wealth.
Should we worry about income gaps within or between countries?
At the beginning of classes every autumn, I tease my students with the following question: Is it better to be poor in...
How to get money to increase the common good
Someone who has 50 billion dollars and keeps it for himself isn't really interested in the "common good." You don't need 50...
States expanding opportunity through wealth taxes
States from Hawaii to Connecticut responded to extreme wealth concentration this year by expanding taxes on the assets of the very wealthy...
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When will US join global call to end Ukraine War?
There are many peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued by leaders and countries around the world as the United States clings to its dogged determination to prolong the war at great cost in Ukrainian lives and at the risk of nuclear war.
The wars we don’t (care to) see
It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.
A global plastics treaty can end the Age of Plastic
This indigenous worldview can lead treaty negotiations, creating systems that are less demanding of our planet and value nature over profit.
If pushing pardons for savage Jan. 6 seditionists isn’t unpardonable, what is?
Abusive pardons of the most serious crimes represent the great terrorist threat to self-government.
Climate activists decry pipeline ‘deal with the devil’ at protest outside Schumer’s home
"It's time to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure and that means no more pipelines. Chuck, stop appeasing Manchin!"