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Inequality
Our Growing Racial Wealth Gap
Researchers have found that when you factor race into the equation, the economic gap is even more pronounced.
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Is $15 an Hour a Fair Wage for Serving Fast Food?
Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.
Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table”
In part two of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the limits imposed on questioning the roots of inequality and how those who own the majority …
The Continuing US War on the Darker Skinned
US militarism is systematically racist, and the liberal media fail to connect the dots, says Adam Hudson.
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Current Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges
A long and slow-developing path forward might be called "evolutionary reconstruction."
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Australia’s Election Campaign Driven by Barbarism That Dares Not Speak its Name
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, using the fear card to gain reelection.
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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
Richard Wolff: Detroit a “Spectacular Failure” of System that Redistributes Pay from Bottom to Top
Kicking off a series of speeches about the economy, President Obama told a crowd in Illinois on Wednesday that reversing growing inequality and rejuvenating the middle class
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Ray Kelly? Seriously? Mr. President, It’s Not What You Say; It’s What You Do
President Obama negates everything he said about the Trayvon Martin killing when he supports