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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A Tale of Two Economies
Economic cheerleading of late would lead you to believe happy days are here again. Not for everybody.
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Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed
The 1% has taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years using a variety of strategies to redistribute wealth to the top. Here is the effect of this funds transfer.
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Restored Payroll Tax Pinches Those Who Earn the Least
While the super wealthy ship their fortunes to Grand Cayman, those on the lower rung suffer higher taxes.
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We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
By shifting the definition of who is rich, the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress extends many of the notions that have made the United States the most economically unfair it has been in half a century.
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"Soak the Rich": Rediscovering Economic Fairness in America
Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful and more democratic size? Of course we can: we've done it before.
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Changing the Rules
The rules aren’t broken—they’re fixed. Which is why we have to change them.
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Tax Rates For America’s Wealthiest Fell In 2010
New data from the IRS shows that the effective tax rates for America’s top earners fell even lower in 2010.
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To Reduce Inequality, Tax Wealth — Not Income
Whether you’re in the 99 percent, the 47 percent or the 1 percent, inequality in America may threaten your future.
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Five Misconceptions About our Tattered Safety Net
More than any other issue over the next four years, we need to address the growing divide in our nation, to tone down our winner-take-all philosophy, to provide job opportunities for people who want to contribute to society.
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Book Review: "Plutocrats" Examines Rise of the Super Rich
Chrystia Freeland's new book, "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else," explores a new breed of global billionaires.
