Tag: economy

By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.

It’s time for Americans worried about living in a country whose inequality gap could soon surpass that of the Gilded Age to begin paying real attention to our “credit-card wars.”

"It should instead focus on basic services and ensure that every Puerto Rican has access to safe public water."

These workers play vital roles in the U.S. economy, erecting American buildings, picking American apples and grapes, and taking care of American babies. Oh, and paying American taxes.

For the CEOs, soothing talk about a surging economy is a lot easier than actually investing in the country that made them rich.

Income and wealth inequality is not simply a monetary issue, it is a complex social crisis that supports and strengthens notions of superiority and inferiority, and was described by President Barak Obama in 2013 as “the defining challenge of our time.”

On June 7 "one of the world's largest pesticide producers will be combined with the world's largest seed company."

All those who are there to ‘Protect and Serve’ this empire will give us are more of the same: Hype, spin, lies and half-truths!

Collective harmony relies on there being right relationship with all living forms and the complex ecological patterns of life of this most beautiful world.

A booming economy? Yes, for the richest 10 percent, who took 85 percent of the new wealth.