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All Posts For - inequality

Hurricane season not only brings destruction and death but rising inequality too

August 27, 2018 Current News inequality Comments are off for this post

Populations that are privileged gain wealth in the aftermath of natural disasters, exacerbating already wide economic inequities. Not only that, how the government delivers aid is partly to blame.

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Ten Years After the Crash

August 20, 2018 Current News Crash of 2008 Comments are off for this post

The deepest source of the crisis, going back decades, was rising inequality. In good times and bad, no matter which party held power, the squeezed middle class sank ever further into debt.

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Heat: the next big inequality issue

August 13, 2018 Current News Climate Change Comments are off for this post

The deadly global heatwave has made it impossible to ignore: in cities worldwide, we are now divided into the cool haves and the hot have-nots.

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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths

July 25, 2018 Current News freedom Comments are off for this post

In order to enforce this illogical, immoral system, the corrupt rulers—most of the time—don’t need guns and tear gas to keep the exploitation mechanisms humming along. All they need are some good, solid bullshit myths for us all to buy into, hook, line and sinker.

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Video: Checking the Banks, Reclaiming the Commons

May 21, 2018 Current News inequality Comments are off for this post

What public banks can do for us ... Make affordable loans to small businesses, farmers, government entities, and students; Save taxpayers up to 50% on infrastructure projects, like bridges and trains and schools ... and much more.

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[Intel Report] Trump budget increases inequality and poverty

February 13, 2018 Current News budget Comments are off for this post

This budget would widen inequality, worsen poverty and hardship, and further divide the country. With it, the President essentially calls on us to ignore what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature” — and instead to enter a new Gilded Age.

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[Intel Report] Houston’s Human Catastrophe Started Long Before the Storm

August 30, 2017 Current News inequality Comments are off for this post

Decades of neglect, inequality, and disenfranchisement mean that all Houstonians, but especially the poorest and most vulnerable, have been left utterly undefended.

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Video: War on the Poor (And just about everyone else)

June 7, 2017 Videos budget Comments are off for this post

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich described the Trump budget proposal as being "cruel and deviant". Political economist Jack Rasmus explains why.

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Intel Report: Trump’s Tax Plan Looks Like a Plutocrat’s Dream

April 26, 2017 Current News inequality Comments are off for this post

Trump will persist with the claim that he is working on a populist plan. In actuality, he is cooking up a fiscally irresponsible gift to plutocrats

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Trump’s budget: the dream of a paranoid strongman and a vicious Scrooge

March 16, 2017 Current News budget Comments are off for this post

Trump doesn’t want an effective military, he wants a big, expensive, ostentatious one that he can march down Pennsylvania Avenue like a Soviet May Day parade.

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