Truthout
Inequality
How the SEC Enabled the Gross Under-Reporting of CEO Pay
Think it's scandalous that the average 2014 pay of the CEOs of the 500 biggest companies was 373 times that of the typical worker?
Student Income Loans Transfer Wealth to Investors, Risk to Students
Student income loans are a form of indenture, transferring wealth upward to investors and risk downward to youth.
Indiana: A Snapshot of Inequality
Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence brags Indiana is “a state that works.” The facts tell a different story.
Bill Moyers | We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People: Saving the Soul of Democracy
The religion of inequality — of money and power — has failed us; its gods are false gods.
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Labor Day 2016: Moderate Progress in Last Year
Workers have a long way to go before they get back their share of the pie.
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“Equal Pay” Is Not So Equal
The gender pay gap is no myth.
Bus Drivers Shouldn’t Pay More Taxes Than Millionaires
Today, the carried interest loophole is just another carve-out for banksters.
Milwaukee’s War on Black People
Sheriff David Clarke is declaring war on the black youth his city has failed.
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A Call for Divestment From the Criminal Punishment System
How a black youth-led organization aims to cut the profit flow from mass incarceration.
War and Wall Street: Clinton’s Bleak Record
Hillary Clinton's history and record reveals she is an agent of Wall Street, war, racial violence and inequity, economic inequality and conservative ideology.