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Inequality

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What GOP-Tea Party Risks With Block of New New Deal
The Republican-Tea Party alliance operates a weapon of mass deflection, protecting capitalism from criticism. Sadly, the Democrats neither expose nor attack the Republican project, says Wolff.

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Subsidizing Economic Inequality
The push to privatize the public sector through contracting out is expanding our economic divide.

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After the Shutdown, Maybe a Little Equality?
Sam Pizzigati: Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal ‘tax and spend’ debate - from deficits to inequality.

Federal Contractor Executives Get $24 Billion Per Year, While Low Wage Workers Fight for More Than $8.25/Hour
Hundreds of federally-contracted workers protest against the largest low wage job creator, the federal government.

On Reinventing the Meaning of Politics and What Needs to Be Done
A global war to resurrect a sense of

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: After Recession America Remains in a New Gilded Age, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, based on numbers from the internal revenue service, the top ten …

Salvatore Babones | Unprecedented Inequality: The Top 1% Captured 95% of the Income Gains Since 2009
Salvatore Babones: The economy is growing, but most workers are left behind.

Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism
We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world.

Why Can’t Democracy Trump Inequality?
Societies that let wealth concentrate at enormously intense levels will quite predictably end up with a wealthy who can concentrate enormous resources on getting their way.

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Why Should We All Be Considered “Equal”?
Moral status or dignity is not tied to a narrow quality or capacity such as medical, mathematical or linguistic knowledge.