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The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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America’s Richest 2% Made More Money in 2017 Than the Cost of the Entire Safety Net
Those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million accumulated enough wealth in 2017 alone to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES over.
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Six Big Losers in Our "Booming" Economy
The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.
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Inequality Out of Control: The Average 1% Household Made Over $2.5 Million in the Past Year
With inequality ripping us apart, and with few of our national leaders willing or able to confront the problem, we may never again be an equitable and functional society.
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Yes, Half of Americans Are In Or Near Poverty: Here’s More Evidence
We still have our houses and cars, right? Maybe not. The poorest 50% of American adults had an average net worth of just $7,500 in 2016. A year earlier it was $9,000, but the richest 1% took it away.
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How Privatization Cuts Us In Two, While Public Institutions Make Us A Better People
We’ve become a nation of profit-makers versus the struggling middle/lower classes. Yet while most people looking to make big money disparage public systems as inefficient, wasteful and inferior, privatization is not the solution – it is the problem.
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The 3 Americans Who Should Pay for Medicare-for-All
One good reason for wealthier Americans to support a better health care system: as the longevity of higher-earning Americans increases relative to low-income Americans, wealthy households benefit more and more from Medicare.
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The Absurdity of Corporate Tax Cuts During the Corporate Pillaging of the Middle Class
Last year, fifteen of the largest corporations in America, with combined revenue well over $1 trillion dollars, paid less than 6 percent in U.S. federal income taxes. But mainstream media opinion editors don’t appear to have the courage to speak up.
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More Evidence That Inequality Is Spiraling Out of Control
Inequality is much worse than we’re led to believe by a dismissive business media. The numbers are hellish, and they’re growing.
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How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money
The new documentary "What the Health" shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit of profits in the meat and dairy and drug industries.
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population
While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. Now, on average, each of the world's richest five men own nearly as much as 750 million people.
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By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
