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Inequality

Don’t Let Corporations Profit From Our Inflation Pain
Corporations are blaming rising prices on elected officials and worker organizing even as they rake in record profits.

Poll Shows Confronting Corporate Greed Is Biden’s Best Anti-Inflation Message
Voters are particularly responsive to messaging that connects price hikes to profiteering by big business.

Amazon’s CEO Pay Is More Than 6,000 Times That of the Company’s Typical Worker
Low-wage corporations have continued to pump up CEO pay during COVID while workers are struggling with rising costs.

I’ve Been in School Mental Health for 10 Years. My Heart Is Breaking Right Now.
As a school-based social worker, I see COVID’s heavy toll. Social workers can’t fix this alone. We need systemic change.

One Billionaire Has Been Created Every 30 Hours During Pandemic, Oxfam Says
Inequality "literally kills," says a new Oxfam International report, which calls for taxing billionaires.

Median CEO Pay Leaps to Record $14.7 Million as Workers Strike for Better Wages
2021 was the sixth consecutive record-breaking year for executive compensation.

The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
"They make money off of family separation," says sociologist and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts.

It’s Time to Challenge the Corporate University
Both public and private universities have been gradually moving toward market-driven models, creating a "gilded age."

Public Universities Need More Democracy, Not More Administrators
A pervasive culture of self-dealing, secrecy and mismanagement reflects a systemic failure in higher education.

Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself
The Ukraine crisis is not the cause but a consequence of the general crisis of global capitalism.