Tag: wealth inequality

The Fed’s low-interest-rate policies have stabilized the economy and turbocharged the stock market. But those who don’t own lots of stocks haven’t benefited anywhere near as much as those who do.

U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.

“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”

"We need to take dramatic steps to address wealth inequality in this country and discouraging massive executive payouts is a good place to start."

The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."

Not those of poor Americans, that’s for sure...

The poorest among us are being cheated. They're being cheated out of the opportunity to share in the great prosperity to which they and their parents and grandparents all contributed.

Recognizing that enslaved men, women and children built many of the cities, rail lines and ports that fuel the American economy is a necessary part of any such accounting.

"This is why we need the fair-share taxes program Joe Biden ran on, won on, and is now ready to pursue."

Perhaps we need some of that now. That is not insurrection or revolution. Let us call it EVOLUTION.