Tag: wealth inequality
The big economic switcheroo
America’s wealthy have never been wealthier. They should pay their fair share of taxes. The big switcheroo should be reversed.
Prices, plutocrats, and corporate concentration
Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality?
By the best definition, the poverty rate should be tripled
But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.
Do good fences make good neighbors?
Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?
Watch your wallets
The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.
Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
Facts that privileged Americans don’t want us to know
The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.
Infographic: This is how much equality a $30 trillion inheritance can...
What it means to be an heir in the U.S., and a few big ideas on how to use the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever.
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Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.
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Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Current nitrate level EPA deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes, other potential health...
The study said the current level of nitrate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes and other potential health risks.
Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
UK surgeon says Israeli forces using Gaza children as ‘target practice’ as starvation crisis...
A British doctor and major humanitarian groups accuse Israeli soldiers of intentionally targeting children near aid sites, as reports show more than 100 children have died from hunger during Israel’s siege of Gaza.