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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Low Wages, Rising Rents: Why California Workers Can’t Afford A Roof Over Their Head
According to the California Housing Partnership Corporation, a combination of falling incomes and high rents is driving the worst rental-housing crisis in California since World War II.
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Growing Dissent: The Coming Year Of Protest
The financial meltdown of 2008 led to widespread unrest that culminated in the protest movements of 2011. Yet far from addressing the systemic problems exposed by the crisis, government-backed elites have only doubled down.
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Who Do They Represent: Davos and Its Threat to Democracy
It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change.
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All Or Nothing: Why the 0.1% Are The Real Terrorists
These 16,000 individuals have as much wealth as 80% of America – and have mastered the art of tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year, and two-thirds of U.S. families don't have enough money for basic repairs.
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Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard – Even for the Rich
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling – and it has to do with income inequality rising.
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The Superrich Get What They Ask For
The affluent are twice as likely to see the policies they strongly favor adopted, while the policies they strongly oppose are only one-fifth as likely to be adopted as those strongly opposed by the middle class.
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Britain’s Pay Gap Widens Further As Fat Cat Salaries Exceed 183 Times the Average Wage
If the U.K. had a reason last year to ponder why the poor weren’t “storming the barricades” over income inequality, the county has even more reason to ask the question heading into 2016.
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A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty
Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into the equivalent of a 3rd-world nation.
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The Investments of the 158: Look Who's Buying American Democracy
For the country's biggest political donors, the success of their "investments" depends on whether their candidates get elected, lower their taxes further, expand loopholes and let them get even richer.
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Billionaire Bonanza: America's Richest 20 Own More Than Half The People
A new report, "Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us," has produced startling revelations about the growing heights of inequality in the U.S.
