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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Restraining the Power of the Rich with a 10% Surtax on Top 0.1% Incomes
Excessive wealth and power commanded by a small group of multi-millionaires and billionaires – the richest one-tenth of 1 percent – poses an existential threat to America’s economic vitality, democracy, and civil society.
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Field Notes 2020: Andrew Yang’s War for Normal People
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
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Reaching Critical Mass On Taxing The Rich
Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
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The Kings of Capitalism are Finally Worried About the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
Now that the political debate has shifted, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is the latest in a bank of billionaires to talk about the gap between rich and poor
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2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector
Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.
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Chartering Disaster: Trump Admin's Education Priorities 'Asleep at the Wheel'
The federal budget proposal for 2020 includes increased funding to charter schools – even as a recent report shows $1 billion in federal funding went to charters that are now closed, or never even opened in the first place.
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Greta Thunberg at London Climate Protest: "We Will Never Stop Fighting"
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since anti-climate change protests started in the British capital one week ago by the global body Extinction Rebellion.
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Movement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, ‘City of Revolutions’
The Sunrise Movement launched a national tour of U.S. cities on April 18 with a sold-out rally at the Strand Theater in Boston.
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A Growing Citizens' Coalition Brings Environmental Justice Fight To Urban Michigan
Citing rising health concerns and the historic pollution of their community, people are confronting US Ecology's bid to vastly expand fracking wastewater storage facilities in their area.
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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
