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 Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
Amid transatlantic proposals for a Green New Deal, monetary policy – normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors – has suddenly taken center stage.
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Capitalism as Obstacle to Equality and Democracy: The U.S. Story
The conclusion we draw from the U.S. story is not that efforts to reverse deepening inequality are foredoomed to failure – it is that mere reforms such as tax law changes are inadequate to the task. To make reforms stick requires going further to basic system change.
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What the Flint Water Crisis Tells Us About America's Eroded Infrastructure
As the Trump administration and GOP leaders talk about more spending cuts and smaller government, realities like Flint become glaring reminders that government programs can make a difference when executed correctly.
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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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Why Organized Labor Must Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Union leaders who support the XL Pipeline are acting against their membership's long-term interests in countering climate change, and putting themselves at odds with popular consciousness and scientific consensus.
