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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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14 Americans Made More Money than the Food Stamp Budget for 50 Million
So little of our national wealth is going to feed people or provide jobs and instead, the richest Americans vastly increased their wealth this past year. But what vaulted these individuals to the top?
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Straight Numbers On the Rich, the Un-Rich And Who's Really Taking Entitlements
The super-rich feel they deserve all the tax breaks and the accumulation of wealth from the productivity of others – this is the true threat of entitlement.
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Tax Them, Tax Them, Tax Them: 5 Extreme Acts of Greed Harming America
If a revolution is to take place, Americans – especially young Americans – need to know the facts, and they need to know how they're getting cheated, and they need to get angry.
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No More Games: If the Super Rich Won't Pay Taxes, It's Time For Plan B
The wealthiest Americans receive the greatest benefits – and they insult the rest of us by treating their tax responsibility like a game.
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How Long Can the Rich Keep Cheating the 99%?
America gained $16 trillion in financial wealth over the past 5 years, though most went to the very top economic rungs.
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Making the Case for Doubling the Corporate Income Tax
U.S. corporations need to pay for the many years of employee productivity and public research that built their trillion-dollar industries.
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The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth Since the Financial Crisis
In just five years, the richest 1 percent has gained $6.1 trillion, while the average American family's net worth has barely recovered.
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2013 End Report: The Super Rich Are Sucking Wealth From the Rest of Us
The wealthiest people in the U.S. and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us.
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How Redistribution to the Rich Has Furthered Poverty and Crushed the Middle Class
Because of the housing crisis and recession, the median family net worth dropped 40 percent between 2007 and 2010, while the richest Americans regained all their losses and began an even steeper climb to the top.
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8 Massive Groups of Americans Being Screwed By The Corporate State
Children, students, the elderly, wage earners, the sick and disabled, women, minorities and the homeless are all getting the short end of the stick in the modern corporate American state.
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By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
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.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
