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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The Morality Of A $15 Minimum
It's becoming more and more common for politicians, and even economists, to say: that no one should be working full time and still remain in poverty.
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R.I.P. Middle Class: Half Of American Workers Make Less Than $30,000
As a nation we are flat broke and most of us are living paycheck to paycheck.
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Economists Agree With Most Americans: Raise Taxes on the 1%
What could a tax-the-rich plan actually achieve? As it turns out, quite a lot, experts say.
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"Inequality Is Not Inevitable": A New Plan to Fix the Rules Structuring Our System
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has led a report called "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy," which seeks to simultaneously reform the financial sector and wrest power from the 1% while redistributing wealth to workers.
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Act Out! [31] - Fasting, fracking, Medicare, money in politics & the Pope
This week, from med students to female priests, fasters to the monopoly man, we've got a helluva lineup – first up, let's talk Medicare and why it shouldn't be so ageist.
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Infographic: How Will the Minimum Wage Increase Affect the Economy?
Understanding the ins and outs of the proposed new federal minimum wage is the first step in taking a stance on the issue.
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The Movement Lives On: 4 Years Later, Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of Its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.
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Ending the Weath Grip: America's Crisis Of Public Not Private Morality
Our problems have nothing to do with what happens in bedrooms or whether women can end their pregnancies. They have have everything to do with what occurs in boardrooms and whether corporations and the wealthy get to undermine our democracy.
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Productivity + Workers Pay = Inequality: New Study Shows Why Wages Aren't Rising
The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
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Disposable Americans: Evidence Keeps Pouring In That Capitalism Just Isn’t Working
From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.