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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The Big Economic Switcheroo
Wealthy Americans finance the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans, profiting when the rest of us pay them back. It's time to follow the money.
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Prices, Plutocrats and Corporate Concentration
The larger our corporations become, the more unequal our societies become. But tougher antitrust enforcement and other legislative solutions could slow our rates of corporate concentration.
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What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150K
Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.
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This is How Republics End
Warnings from the fall of Rome.
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Report reveals: World's billionaires became 20% richer in 2017
Billionaires made more money last year than in any year in recorded history, increasing their wealth by $1.4 trillion, more than the GDP of Spain.
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Britain’s Widening Wealth Inequality Demands Sweeping Reform, Report Says
Britain needs to make extensive changes to recover from its economy's failings, rising inequality and the destructive inheritance of the financial crisis, according to a new report.
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America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening
More than half a million people in the United States are homeless on any given night, and with housing prices rising and wages stagnant, the problem will only keep getting worse.
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An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own As Much Wealth as 70% of the World
That’s 25,000 American adults – the richest .01% of America – who together own nearly $10 trillion, approximately the total wealth owned by 3.5 billion adults globally.
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$30 Trillion Has Gone to the Richest White Americans Since 2008
These fortunate takers profited mainly from the stock market, which has more than tripled in value since the end of 2008.
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Workers Unite! After Decades of Decline, Union Power Is Back
Widening income inequality is closely tied to today's rise of unionization in the United States.
