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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Price Gouging, Regulatory Capture and Scandal In America's Markets
America’s agonizingly slow recovery from the last recession is unlike any of the 32 previous business cycles of economic expansion and contraction, going back 160 years.
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Recipe For Revolt: America Is Wealthier But Americans Are Poorer
Latest data on capital gains show enormous windfalls for wealthiest at the expense of vast majority of Americans.
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Unequal States of America: New Report Shows the Geography of U.S. Income Inequality
The top 1% captured all of the income growth between 2009 and 2011 in 26 out of the 50 states.
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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland
The Portland government's narrowly constructed and carefully controlled austerity narrative, meant to divide and weaken the city