Showing posts with label wealth inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth inequality. Show all posts
Monday, October 13, 2025

Pope Leo Denounces "an Economy that Kills" and "Imbalances of Wealth"

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Oct 11, 2025 | In his first major document, Pope Leo dove right into poverty, saying God has a special place in his heart for those who are ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Massive Labor Day Protests as Americans Stand Up for Their 'Workers over Billionaires' Rights

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Sep 1, 2025 | Hundreds of protests were organized across the country as part of the national “Workers Over Billionaires” effort, a mass acti...
Monday, July 07, 2025

"A Rotten Racket" Senator Whitehouse Rebukes Republican Bill

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Jun 30, 2025 | June 29 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks on the Senate Floor in opposition to the so-called "Big Beautiful Bil...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Ex-world Leaders Call for ‘Powerful Shift’ as They Warn of Extreme Inequality

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THE GUARDIAN: Former leaders urge current state heads to work together to end poverty amid potential of first trillionaires emerging The w...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Democracy Now! "The Economy Is Rigged": Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani, The Democratic Party, Inequality, and Trump

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June 26, 2025 | We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democratic primary for...
Friday, October 25, 2024

The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class & Why You Should Hate Them Even More | Rob Larson | The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Oct 24, 2024 | Rob Larson, professor of economics at Tacoma Community College, to discuss his recent book Mastering the Universe: The Obscen...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Victorian Levels of Poverty Will Return to the UK

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May 1, 2024 The Tories should hang their heads in shame! Their governance of this country has destroyed the nation’s economy, broken beyon...

‘A Deeply Unfair and Unequal Country’: Report Warns of Unprecedented Far-right Gains in UK

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THE OBSERVER: Thinktank says decisive action must be taken to counter inequality in health, housing, poverty and the north-south income divi...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Tax Our Wealth, Super-rich Tell Politicians at Davos

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THE GUARDIAN: Abigail Disney, Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller among signatories of open letter condemning inequality Left to right: Bria...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Gap between Haves and Have-nots Widening, Report Warns

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BBC: The growing gap between the UK's "haves and have-nots" is in danger of becoming a "chasm", a report has warned....
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

A Warning from 1994 of a Two-tiered Society | Robert Reich

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Nov 21, 2023 | In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ago thi...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

New York Is Rebounding for the Rich. Nearly Everyone Else Is Struggling.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The huge income gap between rich and poor in Manhattan is the latest sign that the economic recovery from the pandemic h...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Disney Heiress Leads Call for Tax on ‘Super-rich’

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THE TELEGRAPH: Campaign for minimum global tax aims to address a ‘rise in extreme inequality’ Abigail Disney is one of 300 people who sign...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Top Economists Call for Action on Runaway Global Inequality

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THE GUARDIAN: Gulf between rich and poor increases risk of climate breakdown as well as entrenches poverty, says letter to UN and World Bank...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Super-rich Warned of ‘Pitchforks and Torches’ unless They Tackle Inequality

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THE GUARDIAN: Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions ...
Friday, November 25, 2022

This Holiday Season, the Poor Buckle Under Inflation as the Rich Spend

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Even if policymakers achieve a gentle economic slowdown, it won’t be smooth for everyone. November has been busier tha...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Rising Asset Wealth and Falling Real Wages ‘Drive Inequality in Britain’

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THE GUARDIAN: Young people no longer able to rely on hard work to improve their living standards as they age, says IFS ‘A generation of Br...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Thomas Piketty: 'Tax the Superrich at 80 Per Cent'! | 2014

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Jun 17, 2014 | French economist Thomas Piketty argues for a new taxation system that empowers people who are not born into wealth
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

‘People Are Tired of Being Ignored While the Rich Get Richer’: Bernie Sanders on Anger and Hope in the US and UK

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‘Why, with all this new tech, are we not seeing an improved standard of living?’ … Bernie Sanders at a unionisation rally in Richmond, Virg...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Times Have Never Been Better for Billionaires.

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Feb 16, 2022 • These are very difficult times for working families. But for billionaires and the CEOs of large corporations, times have neve...