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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Super-Rich Don’t Make Money by Hard Work, and More
For most of our lives, we've been taught that hard work pays off, but most of the super-rich don't make their money by working hard, and more.
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What’s Really Driving Inequality?
The World Bank is driving the inequality that is a defining problem of our times through its “Doing Business” rankings and criteria.
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A Fish Swims Like a Fish
The loss of sincerity, of humility as a product of deep practice is anethema to the corporate culture industry. Sincerity is vulnerability, it is the deep strength of a …
One in Three US Deaths Would Be Avoided if US Income Distribution Was the Same as Most European Countries
Study: Those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death.
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Oligarchy USA
At long last, we have irrefutable proof that the one indispensable nation has been subsumed by a bona fide oligarchy.
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Conservatives Are Scared Straight by a Frenchman
Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.
Greek Politics Four Years After the Financial Crisis
Leo Panitch on the left Coalition: Syriza and the struggle against austerity.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Block the Paycheck Fairness Act, and More
Earlier this month, Senate Republicans unanimously blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act and upheld a boss's right to punish workers for talking about unfair pay practices, and more.
Bill Moyers: Government Is Now a Protection Racket for the 1%
Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …
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Dean Baker | Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
If we want to counter the rise in inequality that we have seen in recent decades we are going to have to find mechanisms other than a "global wealth …