Whether the pandemic’s effect on inequality will be felt for many years to come will depend on whether government action. (Common Dreams) Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. ...
MintPress News spoke to a number of people on the front lines attempting to keep America fed during the worst pandemic in a century. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) At least 10,000 cars line up in ...
“Winning good jobs at Walmart, the country’s largest corporate employer, is the gateway to changing the service economy as a whole.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Walmart workers issued a “wake up call” to Alice ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A bill to raise taxes on ...
In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners. (By Frank Clemente, Inequality.org) Republicans repeatedly promised in 2017 that their proposed tax cuts for ...
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A new congressional bill ...
“In the U.S. in 2017, around 17% of children lived in food-insecure homes where at least one family member was unable to acquire adequate food due to insufficient money or other resources.” A New Jersey ...
As income inequality soars in the U.S., the rich are paying fewer and fewer taxes. Drawing upon data from a new book, “The Triumph of Injustice” by UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, ...
“CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills.” A new study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that average CEO ...
The PRO Act would make it easier to form unions and force employers to pay a price for violating workers rights. (By Alan Barber and Liz Watson, Inequality.org) More workers engaged in collective action last ...
“More than a decade after Wall Street greed brought the American economy to its knees, big banks are still using greed as a business model and are still engaging in the reckless behavior that helped ...
“People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country.” (By Inequality.org) Day in and day out, American ...
If we can turn more of this innovation to address the needs of the poor and marginalized, we will reduce a great deal of the fear that has driven history for so long. (By Jesmane ...
Michael Dell falsely argues that top marginal tax rates as high as 70 percent have never worked. (Inequality.org) At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a panel moderator asked Michael Dell, America’s 17th-richest ...
Madrid recently began requiring the homeless to report their income from activities such as begging, performing in the street or selling trinkets and scrap metal for taxing purposes. Social workers and advocates for the homeless ...
‘We will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!” says Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis (Common Dreams, by Andrea Germanos) Thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday where the Poor ...
Shortly after his election, President Donald Trump thanked Harley-Davidson and several major companies “for building things in America.” Then last February, Harley-Davidson turned around and closed a factory, cut up to 800 jobs, increased dividends ...
“We cannot continue to have a democracy that engages in the kind of policy violence that we see happening every day.” (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Aiming to continue the work that Rev. Dr. Martin ...
An annual protest tradition continues as activists demand accountability from the scandal-ridden bank. (Inequality.org, by Negin Owliaei) It’s becoming something of a tradition. Wells Fargo holds its annual shareholder meeting at a location kept close to ...
From Black Lives Matter, to Me Too, to Parkland we look at the psychology behind victim blaming. CHECK OUT THIS PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance Welcome to KVoice a Resistance Podcast! With the rise of the ...
Study found that candidate Trump’s plan would result in nearly 30,000 added deaths per year from all causes, while a plan put forth by Bernie Sanders would actually save 31,302 lives annually. (Common Dreams) A ...
GOP Tax Cuts: In new letter, wealthy group denounces the GOP proposal, which “would disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals and corporations with provisions including repealing the estate tax, repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax, and slashing the ...
“The elite ranks of our billionaire class continue to pull apart from the rest of us,” a new Institute for Policy study analysis finds. (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) In the United States, the 400 richest individuals ...
Donald Trump’s putdown of suffering Puerto Ricans reflects a mindset that has long afflicted the awesomely affluent. (by Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org) Only days after the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump unleashed ...
Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? (Inequality.org, by Stewart Lansley) Many attempts to tackle inequality fall short because they fail to target ...
Trump Collusion: The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin. by (Peter Certo, Otherwords.org) I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s ...
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