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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"Moral Angst" About Inequality? World's Richest Just Keep Getting Richer
In 2015, the world's richest people were able to sit back and watch their assets grow to a stunning $168 trillion.
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Act Out! [58] - Three Issues with the Panama Papers, and an Anti-Fracking Punk Provocateur
This week, three things you gotta know and consider about the Panama Papers — and no, it has nothing to do with Putin. Then, we have a special interview with Joe Corre, anti-fracking activist in the U.K.
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The 1% Games: More Than 50,000 New Yorkers Pay Zero City Income Taxes
Perhaps you will be pleased to know that the number of New York City households reporting incomes of more than $1 million has climbed by 47 percent. Or maybe you do not see this as good news.
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Republicrat Cartel: America's Two Major Parties And the Chokehold On Democracy
The two dominant machines steering the U.S. electorate have consistently diminished the potential for a freer America – forming a political cartel with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition.
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The Very Rich and the Rest of Us: Setting the Stage for Class War
If the 1% had taken the same percentage of U.S. income in 2006 as they did in 1980, they'd have sucked $1 trillion less out of the economy. Instead they tripled their share of post-tax income and captured ALL income gains in 2 years of recovery.
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The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality
The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. We need to change the rules, and we need to do it quickly.
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The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a growing coalition of powerful CEOs, politicians and policy makers on a mission to lower taxes for the rich and cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the name of debt reduction.
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To Reduce Inequality, Tax Wealth — Not Income
Whether you’re in the 99 percent, the 47 percent or the 1 percent, inequality in America may threaten your future.
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Lawmakers Exposed: Who Really Works for the 1%?
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? A new “Congressional Report Card for the 99 Percent" answers that question.
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
In this flashback from May 2011, Joseph Stiglitz writes that 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
