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Billionaires
26 Billionaires Own as Much as World’s 3.8 Billion Poorest People
The wealth of the world's poorest fell by $500 million each day in 2018.
Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History
Billionaires inheriting their wealth is a trend that will accelerate over 20 years.
Trump EPA Plans to Weaken Mercury Regulations
Top EPA officials are catering to coal millionaires.
KochPAC Rarely Gives Money to US House Democrats…Except to These Four
These Koch-backed Democrats include those who oppose environmental regulation and deny climate change.
Economic Update: Capitalism Makes Few Winners, Many Losers
This week's episode provides updates on Armenia's political uprising, banks' big profits, Harley-Davidson's layoffs and unjust criminal penalties.
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Tech’s Growing Stranglehold on the Media
Media ownership is a billionaire's propaganda tool.
Billionaires Celebrate Their Own Social Security Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day is an anti-government propaganda gimmick where the billionaire class suggests we stop “working for the government.”
Henry A. Giroux on Trump’s Cabinet, the Church of Neoliberal Evangelicals
Trump's cabinet of incompetent billionaires and generals represents the worst of militarism and neoliberalism.
A Call for Equitable Development
In Baltimore, activists are urging city officials to move beyond “tax increment financing” that privileges billionaires at public expense.
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Sipping Champagne on the Titanic: Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
How can there be so many billionaires so self-absorbed in their greed that they cannot see the suffering that surrounds them?