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Fighting Inequality In Seattle, Students Lead Protests to Change School and Transit Policies
We want all inequitable policies to be challenged.
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Why Conservative Billionaires Have Started Talking Like Bernie Sanders
This is Kenneth Langone, the founder of Home Depot and a longtime GOP donor. His biggest fear? Income inequality.
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The Outrageous Ascent of CEO Pay
For the 35 years, almost all incentives operating on American corporations have resulted in lower pay for average workers and higher pay for CEOs and other top executives – it's about time that started to change.
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Why Conservatives are Still Trying, And Failing, To Prove Income Inequality Is A Myth
The middle class is doing just fine, they say...
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Great Embarrassments of an Unequal Society
America has experienced "gush-up" rather than "trickle-down" – now the shame is on the adherents of unregulated free-market capitalism who have assaulted us with winner-take-all wealth over the common good.
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San Francisco’s Inequality, Between the Levels of Rwanda and Guatemala, Is Still Growing
Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park reveals inequality like perhaps no other place can.
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The Problem With the Fight for $15 – Not Radical Enough
The Oakland-based activist and performer says workers need to look beyond city councils and form a radical new labor movement – through strikes, stoppages and occupations of the workplace.
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Why Inequality Is Making Los Angeles a Third World City
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind – as the cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.
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1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills
A new report found that 3.2 million California families don't earn enough income to pay for food, rent, health care and other essentials “to maintain even an adequate level of economic security.”
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Billionaires to the Barricades?
Since Occupy Wall Street, populist politicians and liberal intellectuals have been inveighing against income inequality – but more recently, the topic has been taken up by a different and unlikely group of advocates: billionaires.
