Steve Ruis: Why the Rich Love the Status Quo
Steve Ruis writes in his blog that “class warfare” is over, finished, kaput. The top .001% won. They made out like bandits during the pandemic...
Category : Inequality
New Yorker: Union Vote in Bessemer Is Crucial to Revival of Labor and the Fairness of the Economy
Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in the New Yorker about the importance of the vote on whether to unionize at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The...
Unions and the Future of Democracy
The following essay was written by Michael Podhorzer, Senior Advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO. I totally agree that the key to building a...
Christina Groeger: How Education Embedded Inequality
Historian of education Christina Groeger writes that Americans have long believed that education is the key to equality, but she thinks that this faith is...
McKenzie Scott: A Good Billionaire?
McKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. She was at his side when he founded Amazon and was the company’s first accountant. She played...
Farhad Manjoo: The Pandemic Brings Good Times to Billionaires
Farhad Manjoo is an opinion writer for the New York Times. In this column, he says that the wealth of American billionaires has grown dramatically...
How Our Tax Systems Favors the 1% and Cuts Their Taxes
Nathan Bomey explained the tax avoidance strategies of the super-rich in an article in USA Today. Tax evasion is illegal but tax avoidance is not....
Jan Resseger: “Let Them Eat Tweets”
Jan Resseger reviews here a new book that explains the full-blown triumph of plutocracy. Trump is the culmination, not the cause. Wealth and power are...
TIME: The Top 1% Have Taken $50 Trillion from the Bottom 90%
This may be the most important article you read this year. The pandemic has exacerbated the huge inequality gaps that existed before the virus struck....
David Dayen: How Little Can the GOP Do for Working People?
David Dayen writes a daily update on the pandemic crisis for the American Prospect. It is called “Unsanitized.” I highly recommend it. In this post,...