President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
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The Revolt of the Anxious Class Has Just Begun
For years I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.
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Finland Launches Basic Income Plan, Paying Everyone $876 a Month
Finland could be the first major nation to implement the model on a universal basis.
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Why Protests Haven't Stopped Over Minneapolis Police Killing Of Jamar Clark
Activists are calling not only for justice for Clark but also for an end to racist policing and unequal socioeconomic structures throughout the city and state.
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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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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose
How four decades of lobbying and legislation gave corporations dominion over our economy—and eroded the American middle class.
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Pope Renews Call for Wealth Redistribution As U.S. Religious Progressives Gain Ground
Pope Francis on Friday cited the Bible in his call for a “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits,” while social scientists see a growing U.S. religious movement for social justice.
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After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba had a vision of "revolutionary transformation" for Jackson – using public spending to boost local wealth through worker owned co-ops, urban gardening and "solidarity economics" development.
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Robert Reich: Stop the War on Poor and Working Families
Robert Reich connects the dots to show how a range of positions, on issues ranging from the minimum wage to unemployment insurance to food stamps, work together to keep poor and working families in desperate situations – and calls on all of us to do something about it.
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NYC's Income Inequality Gap: "Extraordinary" And Growing
"It's edgy out there," Mayor de Blasio told a group of people who associate "edgy" with booking a business class international flight with Bonus Miles alone.
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The Year of the Great Redistribution – When Wealth Went Upwards
“Trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up in 2013, as the stock market ended at an all-time high and gave stockholders their biggest annual gain in decades, as wealth transferred from some of the rich to others of the rich.
