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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New Evidence that Half of America Is Broke
While jubilant headlines depict growing financial wealth, half of our nation, by all reasonable estimates of human need, is in poverty.
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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When Mainstream Meets Occupy: What the New Democratic Message Might Look Like
The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the country's income growth as the average incomes of the 99 percent fall, and Americans know it – which is why politicians and mainstream economists are now scrambling to respond.
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Meet the Extreme Super Rich – These 80 People Own More Than the World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion
The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009 is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.”
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London’s Supremacy Grows As Britain’s North-South Economic Divide Widens
As London and the towns and cities in its vicinity flourish with new jobs, talent and money, life to the North is being choked.
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Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
The pay ratio between the highest- and lowest-paid worker-owners in cooperatives is between 3:1 and 5:1, compared with a ratio of roughly 600:1 in traditional corporations.
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New Oxfam Report Shows Half Of Global Wealth Is Held By the 1%
Rising inequality is dangerous. A concentration of wealth capturing power is leaving ordinary people voiceless.
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Obama’s Budget Proposal Takes Aim At the Wealthy
President Obama plans to propose raising $320 billion over the next 10 years in new taxes targeting wealthy individuals and big financial institutions to pay for new programs designed to help lower- and middle-income families
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The Year We Build Power Together
The social movement can begin 2015 with a major victory over corporate power.
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer – And Why It Could Get Much Worse
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has been writing about America’s economically divided society since the 1960s.
