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.
income inequality
Follow:
-
Who Do They Represent: Davos and Its Threat to Democracy
It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change.
-
All Or Nothing: Why the 0.1% Are The Real Terrorists
These 16,000 individuals have as much wealth as 80% of America – and have mastered the art of tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year, and two-thirds of U.S. families don't have enough money for basic repairs.
-
Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard – Even for the Rich
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling – and it has to do with income inequality rising.
-
The Superrich Get What They Ask For
The affluent are twice as likely to see the policies they strongly favor adopted, while the policies they strongly oppose are only one-fifth as likely to be adopted as those strongly opposed by the middle class.
-
Britain’s Pay Gap Widens Further As Fat Cat Salaries Exceed 183 Times the Average Wage
If the U.K. had a reason last year to ponder why the poor weren’t “storming the barricades” over income inequality, the county has even more reason to ask the question heading into 2016.
-
A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty
Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into the equivalent of a 3rd-world nation.
-
Billionaire Bonanza: America's Richest 20 Own More Than Half The People
A new report, "Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us," has produced startling revelations about the growing heights of inequality in the U.S.
-
From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter: Where Does Radical Protest Go From Here?
New movements have had more material success than Occupy Wall Street, but the age-old challenge that Occupy put into stark relief remains: will they settle for reform when they came to have a revolution.
-
Here's How to Fix Inequality
If there’s one thing Joseph Stiglitz wants to say about inequality, it’s that it has been a choice, not an unexpected, unfortunate economic outcome – which means that we, as citizens, have a chance to fix the problem.
-
Socialism with an American Face
A possible answer is quietly emerging in many parts of the country – it involves changing and democratizing who owns productive wealth, but unlike traditional socialism, it does so in a radically decentralized, populist and very American form.
