America’s Richest 2% Made More Money in 2017 Than the Cost of the Entire Safety Net

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.

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Six Big Losers in Our "Booming" Economy

The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.

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Inequality Out of Control: The Average 1% Household Made Over $2.5 Million in the Past Year

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.

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Yes, Half of Americans Are In Or Near Poverty: Here’s More Evidence

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.

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How Privatization Cuts Us In Two, While Public Institutions Make Us A Better People

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.

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The 3 Americans Who Should Pay for Medicare-for-All

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.

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The Absurdity of Corporate Tax Cuts During the Corporate Pillaging of the Middle Class

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.

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More Evidence That Inequality Is Spiraling Out of Control

Inequality is much worse than we’re led to believe by a dismissive business media. The numbers are hellish, and they’re growing.

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How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money

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.

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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population

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.

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