Tag: wealth inequality

We have built a terrifying legal and policing apparatus that has placed the poor of our nation in bondage – an American tyranny.

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.

Sanders, who called the tax law "one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country," along with many other Democrats, are calling for a repeal.

Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.

In the U.S., where wealth inequality is extreme and getting worse, the richest .01 percent are wealth-obese.

IPS's Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie know it is not a “natural phenomenon” how the rich got rich at the expense of the rest of the population.

Informed Americans understand that an economic war has been waged against the middle and lower classes.

A national movement is growing for a $15 an hour minimum wage rase—workers at fast-food and big-box retail establishments are striking for a raise. So when will corporate America start moving toward this goal?

According to the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook, the wealthy elite's continuing disdain for the poor, the middle class and people all around the world is disturbing. These wealth gap realities are victimizing the great majority of Americans.

The powerful peers of the corporate plutocracy are frightened by wealth inequality happening in America. While many are looking to fix it, their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice, but rather by self-interest.