Truthout
Inequality
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Racial Discrimination Exacerbates Inequality for Americans of All Races
America has the highest incarceration rate worldwide due to the routine infliction of draconian punishments.
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Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around
Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?
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The Oscar Grant Effect: On Michael Brown and Institutional Racism in America
Who's shaping the “official” story?
Lawmakers and School Officials: Stay Out of Our Bodily Wastes
Being poor was the only suspicion needed.
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Inside Our Profoundly Unequal “New Normal“
Wealth's current tilt to the top sometimes seems almost eternal. But can our economy “self-correct”? A provocative new paper out of the developed world's official research agency contemplates our …
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Anti-Politics and the 1%
Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …
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Worth More: One Man or an Entire City?
What does it say about our society when one hedge fund manager makes a bigger income than the whole population of Springfield, Ohio or Burbank, California?
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Open Letter to President Obama
My name is Jose Angel N., and I am an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste
The bloated financial sector in the United States is a major engine of inequality sucking money away from poor and middle income households.
Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?
College and university administrators, unlike their faculty and students, are thriving.