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Inequality
Our Generation, Our Choice: Youth Draw Connections Between Race, Environment and Immigration
Justice for people of color depends on addressing all forms of inequality.
We’re Asking the Wrong Question About the Debt Ceiling
Just in time for Halloween, the specter of a nation-paralyzing debt crisis threatens to rise once again from the crypt of bad ideas.
The Threat of Extreme Inequality
The people who brought you the financial crisis are trying to buy the chance to do it all over again.
Eighty Percent of Us Owe Money to Institutions; Can We Leverage It to Reduce Inequality?
Three visionaries discuss how the US debt problem has transformed the movements they work with.
The Billionaire Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
It's time to stop the so-called “free trade” debacle and bring our jobs home now!
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Corporate Elite Rig the System Against Us, and More
We need more than talk to narrow the great divide between the haves and have-nots.
These Authors Spent Years Finding Out Why 1.5 Million US Families Live on $2 a Day
H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of the poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty.
New Goals at the UN Reflect Failure of Imagination for International Development
By ignoring history, the Sustainable Development Goals' creators have shown their inability to envision an alternative economic paradigm.
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It’s All Part of Capitalism: How Philanthropy Perpetuates Inequality
In “Pro Bono?” Mikkel Thorup argues that capitalist philanthropy exacerbates class divisions and perpetuates inequality.
Five Questions Every Presidential Candidate Needs to Answer About Education
Forget accountability. This time around, the candidates need to address inequality.