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To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
Submitted by sarahadams on
Those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million accumulated enough wealth in 2017 alone to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES over.
The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.
With inequality ripping us apart, and with few of our national leaders willing or able to confront the problem, we may never again be an equitable and functional society.
We still have our houses and cars, right? Maybe not. The poorest 50% of American adults had an average net worth of just $7,500 in 2016. A year earlier it was $9,000, but the richest 1% took it away.
We’ve become a nation of profit-makers versus the struggling middle/lower classes. Yet while most people looking to make big money disparage public systems as inefficient, wasteful and inferior, privatization is not the solution – it is the problem.
One good reason for wealthier Americans to support a better health care system: as the longevity of higher-earning Americans increases relative to low-income Americans, wealthy households benefit more and more from Medicare.
Last year, fifteen of the largest corporations in America, with combined revenue well over $1 trillion dollars, paid less than 6 percent in U.S. federal income taxes. But mainstream media opinion editors don’t appear to have the courage to speak up.
Inequality is much worse than we’re led to believe by a dismissive business media. The numbers are hellish, and they’re growing.
The new documentary "What the Health" shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit of profits in the meat and dairy and drug industries.
While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. Now, on average, each of the world's richest five men own nearly as much as 750 million people.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
If Democrats stick to the blueprint last week’s elections provided, MAGA could be extinct before the end of the decade.
Virtually every facet of the upper echelons of American society is represented in the emails, from legacy media to academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington DC.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
If Democrats stick to the blueprint last week’s elections provided, MAGA could be extinct before the end of the decade.
Virtually every facet of the upper echelons of American society is represented in the emails, from legacy media to academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington DC.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.