In Durham, North Carolina, a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change. As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina, ended, she would ...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us. Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying ...
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a ...
How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality. Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact about the US economy. But remarkably, mainstream economics (that is, the ECON learned by most ...
The U.S. military’s budget, like so many police department budgets, is bloated, and diverts our tax dollars into forces of domination and violence. Now is the time to question our spending priorities at the local ...
“Businesses’ calls for immunity are premised on a false choice between the return to a healthy economy and allowing businesses to be held accountable if they cause people to get sick.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common ...
We have been prone to notions of greatness for far too long. It’s time for a realistic view of our nation. “America First,” has been a pronouncement of pride for President Donald Trump and millions ...
“For the past 40-plus years, a group of “conservative” billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities ...
“Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amplifying fresh critiques of wealthy inequality that have mounted ...
The survey was taken as Congress debated a $4.5 trillion corporate bailout amid the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) New polling out Wednesday backdropped by the continuing coronavirus outbreak shows that most of ...
“DNC changing the rules to benefit a billionaire.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) After debate rules were changed in favor of allowing billionaire Mike Bloomberg to join the candidates onstage vying for the 2020 Democratic ...
2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is receiving heavy criticism for hiring a call center that uses prison labor which can pay as little as $20 a month. Multibillionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg hired a contractor ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
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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