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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Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It
Complaining that the United States has one of the world’s highest corporate tax levels, President Trump and congressional Republicans have repeatedly vowed to shrink it.
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Big Oil's Influence: Flurry of State Bills Introduced to Penalize Electric Car Drivers
Since the start of 2017, six states – Indiana, South Carolina, Kansas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Montana – have introduced legislation requiring electric vehicle owners to pay hundreds of dollars in yearly fees.
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90% of American Households Lost $17,000 In Wealth to the 1% in 2016
America has always been great for the richest 1% and it’s rapidly becoming greater, as multi-millionaires shifted nearly $4 trillion in wealth away from the rest of the nation to themselves last year.
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The Return of American Race Laws
The warmup act for a full-blown American fascism and orchestrated race war is taking place in immigrant and marginal communities across the United States: Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids at homes and businesses.
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No, Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream
Blaming robots for today's economic disruption, while not as dangerous as protectionism and xenophobia, is also a distraction from real problems and real solutions.
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Banks Actually Want To Make It Easier, Not Harder, To Launder Money
Instead of getting down to the business of ripping off clients for profit, the world’s largest banks now want to do less to stop drug lords, tax cheats, and terrorists from moving money through their institutions.
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The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump's Deportation Plans
"There's little doubt in my mind that they will continue to rely on the private prison industry in what's going to be the biggest expansion of [ICE] in history," said Carl Takei, staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project.
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Dysfunction and Deadlock at the Federal Election Commission
A 2015 Bloomberg poll found that at least 87 percent of Americans favored changes to campaign finance laws so that wealth does not dictate political influence – yet our FCC continues to betray the American public and jeopardize our democracy.
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Belated Valentine To Wells Fargo: How To Break Up With Your Bank
As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Hate Groups Increase for Second Consecutive Year as Trump Electrifies Radical Right
A new report found that the number of hate groups operating in 2016 rose to 917 – up from 892 in 2015 – and that the most dramatic growth was the near-tripling of anti-Muslim hate groups, from 34 in 2015 to 101 last year.
