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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Act Out! [155] - Corporate Sugar Daddies & How To Fix the Healthcare System
Everyone that comes into contact with our healthcare – or rather sick care – system knows it's broken, or rather that it's fixed. We highlight the easy solution and the difficult path to getting everyone the care they need, no strings attached.
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What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It
New research shows the super-rich are hiding their money at alarming rates, as households with wealth over $40 million evade 25 to 30 percent of personal income and wealth taxes.
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A New Take on Unrigging Our Taxes
Our super rich have their own personal trainers, chefs, and pilots. Maybe we should give them their own personal tax collectors.
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Big Banks Can Be Beaten – When Working Families Turn Their Anger at Wall Street into Action
Maribel Touré, who grew up in Mexico, is just one of many Americans hurt by the financial crisis who now want more done to crack down on Wall Street greed and recklessness. That's why she’s added her support to Take on Wall Street.
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40 Millionaires Ask New York Governor to Raise Taxes On the 1%
“As New Yorkers who have contributed to and benefited from the economic vibrancy of our state, we have both the ability and the responsibility to pay our fair share,” the millionaires said in an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers.
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Stiglitz: How Inequality Is Killing the American Dream – And What We Can Do About It
The U.S. is gradually, and painfully, struggling to come to terms with certain contradictions about the enormity of inequalities marking our society.
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Higher Ed, Not Debt: A Coalition Tackles America’s Student Financial Crisis
Occupy Wall Street activist Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party talks about the new “Higher Ed, Not Debt” campaign that Elizabeth Warren helped launch.
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Under Public Pressure, House Democrats Introduce Plan for Public Campaign Financing
The Government by the People Act would create voluntary public financing of elections for House candidates - and it already has more than 100 co-sponsors on the bill.
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Why 1 in 9 of America's Biggest Companies Pay Zero Taxes
Getting to a zero percent tax rate despite turning a profit requires creative accounting — and corporate tax codes allow companies to avoid tax liability even in years when they turn a profit. 57 companies listed on the S&P 500 index last year paid zilch.
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How Redistribution to the Rich Has Furthered Poverty and Crushed the Middle Class
Because of the housing crisis and recession, the median family net worth dropped 40 percent between 2007 and 2010, while the richest Americans regained all their losses and began an even steeper climb to the top.
